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THE COLORADO 


BLUE BOOK 

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PRICE FIFTY CENTS. 


PUBLISHED BY THE 

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Room 22. Evans Block, DENVER, COLO. 







































































EKATUM. 


Owing to an oversight of the printer, the pages 150 and 151 
got transposed. Page 150 should be 151, and 151 should be 150. 



THE 


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PUBLISHED BY THE 


Aurora of the Western World 
Publishing Company, 

Room 22 Evans Block, Denver, Colo. 


Price 50 Cents. 































Copyrighted 1891, 
by F. W. KrcEnke, Ed. 



PREFACE. 


The Colorado Blue Book for 1891 is the first publication of the 
kind in our Centennial State. 

Blue Books are issued, biannually, in most States of the Union, 
and are eagerly read by people who desire accurate information 
about the States, concerned. 

There is probably no Commonwealth in the country, that could 
gain more by such a publication, than our own Colorado 

True, the State has been thoroughly and persistently sdvertised, 
especially through the munificent liberality of her Rail Road Com¬ 
panies who have surpassed all former efforts in that line, but yet, 
there is — comparatively speaking an almost total lack of infor¬ 
mation about Colorado and her inexhaustible resources, amongst 
the masses of the people in the Eastern States and Europe. 

Our mining, agricultural and live stock interests are only in 
their infancy. Although an empire has been built up, only the 
beginning has been made. We need more capital, more workers 
more homes, more visitors, we need more recognition and, above 
all, we need to make the influence of our State felt every where. 

Any publication which assists in bringing about this desired re¬ 
sult, should be hailed with delight. 








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The Blue Book will be thoroughly distributed through the East 
and Europe as well as throughout Colorado. It will be placed 
into the hands of such people as are enterprising and command 
capital and influence. It will attract more attention than any 
other publication could possibly do. 

We will issue the State Blue Book, hereafter, just at the 
close of each Legislative session and will, also, during the year, 
issue supplements, describing such Counties and communities 
as feel an active interest in their own lively development. 

It was a mistake to try the advertising scheme for all parts of 
the State, as was attempted last year, simply because some local¬ 
ities lack that vigorous energy which others have; local advertising 
should be left to local enterprise, and then will those communi¬ 
ties forge to the front, which are willing to let their lights shine 
We heretofore have done much work of that kind for several 
Counties in the State, and they have reaped satisfactory results. 

We hope to be kept busy, getting out supplements, this year. 

Denver, Colo., April 18th 1891. 


The Publishers. 




ON COLORADO’S TENTH BIRTHDAY. 


(July Fourth 1876- 18S6 ) 

Ten years a State! 
A fruitful time 
And glorious fate 
Together chime. 


Columbia’s Centennial day was at hand, 
Rejoicing and triumph were filling the land; 

And worthily now this auspicious event 

Was crowned by Colorado’s illustrious star 
In flag and in Union forevermore blent 
In sisterhood s circle, on sovereign par. 

The youngest and brightest, by nature endowed 
With treasures and beauties, so rich and so proud. 
That quickly she takes a conspicuous place, 

Attracting the brain and the brawn of the age, 
And onward she strides with gigantic a pace, 

Her progress alone by ambition to guage, 

Her railways exclaimed like Napoleon, of old, 

No Alps in our way shall delay us or hold! 

“We’ll climb to the summit and pierce through the 

cloud, 

“We’ll do what a mortal has never yet dreamed” 
And lo! they fulfill what so rashly they vowed, 

And swift 1 v performed what impossible seemed. 


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The gnomes who had guarded the mountains so 

long, 

Concealing their treasures from prospectors’ 

throng, 

Now suddenly yield, at the Carbonate Camp, 
Unclosing such vaults as had never been seen, 
Thus showing to mortals, by Aladdin’s Lamp, 
What only enchanters and dreamers could ween . 

Oh camp of all camps that to mankind are known 
One-tenth of thy treasures has not yet been shown 
And what thou hast yielded, may serve but to lend 
A glimpse at the riches thou still hast to show, 
Remind us of others that also may send 
Crystallified chambers in blessings to flow. 

But not in her gold and her silver alone, 

Already this state in her splendor’s outgrown 
The oldest of sisters, with iron and coal, 

With finest and plumpest and sweetest of grains, 
With herds which through parks and through val 

leys can stroll 

And people whose enterprise everything gains. 

Her future will 
Be grander still! 

She’s just begun 
Her glorious run, 

And ne’er will end 
Till from the top 
Her people send 
Their shoutings up! 


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THE COLORADO MINER. 


Ho for Colorado’s mountains, 

Full of silver, glittering gold! 

They are everlasting fountains, 
Holding treasures, yet untold. 

We are here, because we like it; 
We will stay, until our pluck 

And our perseverance strike it: 
Work vve trust in, not in luck. 

In the morning, we eat bacon 
And a piece of camp baked bread; 

Then, our simple repast taken, 
Mountain upward wend our tread. 

Steep the traii, we are ascending, 
Heavy are the tools, we bear, 

But our hopefulness is blending 
With each hardship and each care. 

Often over snow we wander, 

All the blessed, livelong year, 

But our faith is our commander, 
Takes away each doubt and fear. 

Faith and hope, in fullest measure 
Do assure us of our luck. 

Tell us that a boundless treasure 
In our mining claim we’ve struck. 

Thus we ply the pick and shovel, 
Drill and hammer, all the day; 

Nights, fatigued we, in our hovel, 
Dream the hours like kings away. 


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Hon. William Gilpin, 
ilie First Governor of Colorado. 


Biblical History commences with the story of Creation,, and 
so should properly, the history of a State begin with the very 
first conception of its greatness. 

Long even, before the very first foundation is laid to any great 
enterprise or work of history, the master-mind of genius must 
conceive all the details. 

* 

Such a mind is that of Gov. Gilpin, who w T as the pioneer, 
the very first path-finder through the West, and who then al¬ 
ready, prophesied that here would be built a magnificent empire, 
even while yet all was a howling wilderness where only the war 
whoop of the savage was heard ringing through the atmosphere. 

Descended from a historical ancestry, born amidst the scenes 
of a just then expanding nation which was destined to become 








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the crowning glory of all civilizations, bred and educated amidst 
surroundings of the most illustrious characters, listening to the 
wise teachings of those who held the very rudder of the “Ship 
of State”, endowed by nature with a vigorous body, an in¬ 
domitable energy and a mind which could absorb and retain all 
that is best in knowledge; William Gilpin seems to have been 
created to be the very factor of Providence for as high and noble, 
as it was a peculiar purpose. 

Just two hundred years ago, this very year, Joseph Gilpin 
who was a Quaker, seeing that the government of England 
was maltreating his people, emigrated to America with his 
wife, nee Hannah Glover, settling on the Brandywine, in what 
now is Delaware County, Pa.. He reared a family of fifteen 
children, and fiom his second son, Samuel, sprang Thomas 
Gilpin, born in 1728, whose first son, Joshua, born in Phi¬ 
ladelphia, in 1765, was father of eight children, the youngest 
being the subject of our sketch. 

Joshua Gilpin was a man of great culture, of eminent 
abilities, and his society was sought by the most renowned 
of his time. At his house, Lafayette had his headquarters 
at the battle of the Brandwine. Joshua Gilpin also was a man 
of letters, being the author of a number of poems. 

His wife, nee Mary Dilwortli, was a fit consort for such 
a man, handsome, amiable and accomplished. 

Both parents of our William Gilpin were conspicuous figures 
in the society of the historic names of their time, where 
the Washingtons, the Jeffersons, the Bandolphs, the Franklins 
and many signers of the Declaration of Independence as well 

as warriors and statesmen moved. 

William Gilpin was born on the 4th day of October 1822, 
and early in life evinced a special taste for history, poetry 
and physical geography as well as the French language which 
he learned to speak fluently. 

Having spent two years at school in England and having 
visited Belfast where an elder brother of his was American 


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Consul, lie came to Philadelphia, where he graduated from 
the University of Pennsylvania, two years later, 

Through the influence of President Jackson who always 
called him “my son,” William obtained easy admission to 
West Point from where he graduated with honors. 

JNTow his active life began. After a brief visit to England, 
he obtained, in July 1836, a commission as second lieutenant 
in the 2nd Dragoons and was sent to Missouri to obtain and 
drill recruits. In 1838, he was promoted first lieutenant and 
went to the Florida war where he was kept on continual scout¬ 
ing tours and skirmishes, during which Osceola, Coacooche, 
Blue Snake and other prominent Seminole chiefs were captured. 

The war ended, Gilpin resigned his commission and, for a 
year had charge of the Missouri Arg-us at St. Louis, during 
the memorable and hard fought campaign which resulted in the 
triumphant re-election of Benton and Lynn, a result, largely due 
to Gilpin’s masterly management of the Argus. 

He was elected Secretary of the General Assembly of Missou¬ 
ri, but during the bitterness of the campaign, he had made so 
many enemies that he had to go constantly armed; an attempt 
was even made upon his life by a big bully, named Grimsey 
of whom the whole community stood in fear, but whom Gilpin 
completely vanquished in the encounter. 

Having been admitted to the bar, he then commenced the 
practice of law at Independence, Mo., where he had his nom¬ 
inal residence until 1861. 

In 1843, Gilpin who had always been anxious to explore the 
Great West, started for the Pacific Ocean expecting to make the 
trip, all alone, through a howling wilderness, swarming with hos¬ 
tile savages. 

Accidentally, he fell in with the immortal Fremont and par¬ 
ty whose company he enjoyed until they reached Walla Walla. 

Proceeding to the upper Dalles, he procured a canoe and 
with three white companions and an Indian pilot, he went down 
the river to the lower Dalles, often being in extreme danger 
from the savages, and thence proceeded to Vancouver, where 


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he remained two months, gaining much valuable information. 

The Hudson’s Bay Company, thinking that he learned too 
much about the country for the game preserves, tried to kid¬ 
nap him aboard a vessel, about to sail for the Sandwich Islands 
but Gilpin proved too shiewd for them. 

Proceeding to Oregon City, he was there instrumental in 
organizing a provisional government and was commissioned to 
take a petition to the U. S. government, setting forth the con¬ 
dition of Oregon. 

Then our hero undertook, amidst great dangers from savages 
floods and winds, a journey down the Willamette, out into the 
Columbia, to Astoria, from where, across swamps and through 
dense forests, he, at last reached the Pacific Coast. 

On his return trip, he accidentally ran into an Indian camp, 
where nothing but his indomitable courage and audacity saved 
him from being; massacred. 

This trip was of great value to himself and the country. 

Upon his return home, he was again made secretary of 
Missouri’s general assembly. 

After a visit to his mother in 1845, the young lieutenant 
visited Washington, where James Buchanan, then Secretary of 
State, was so fascinated with the recital of his travels that he 
took him to Pres. Polk who pronounced this most valuable 
information. 

WhenCongress convened, the most prominent Senators and 
members often sought information from Gilpin, and a bill was 
formulated for a mail route to the mouth of the Columbia River. 

But Gilpin’s influence did not stop here. 

He was requested to make a report to the Senate, which he 
did in a book of 47 pages, and which proved of the highest 
importance to the people. 

The same year, the Mexican war having broken out, Gilpin 
was elected Major of the 1st. Missouri Yols. in which com¬ 
mand he distinguished himself at the battle of Sacramento, but 
contracted a malarial fever which remained in his system for 


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ten years. 

Although sick in bed, when Pres. Polk sent Gov. Edwards 
of Mo. to him, in the fall of 1847, to organize an army with 
which to suppress an Indian outbreak, he responded. As Lieut 
Col. of a battalion of eight Companies, he marched into the 
Indian country and wintered near the present site of Pueblo. 

During the summer of 48, he fought nine battles with the 
various tribes, and his command took 253 scalps of warriors. 

In November, he returned home, almost broken in health, 
and recovered only slowly under the treatment of eminent 
physicians in St. Louis, Louisville, Ky., and Philadelphia. 

During this period he also laid out an addition to Indepen¬ 
dence and the town of Centropolis, now Kansas City. 

In February, 1861, Col. Gilpin accompanied President-elect 
Lincoln from Springfield to Washington and was one of the 

guard of one hundred. 

Pi *es. Lincoln considered him the one indispensable man for 
the position of Governor of Colorado and accordingly ap¬ 
pointed him, which appointment was at once confirmed. 

The first name of the territory, as placed into the bill, 
creating it, had been Jefferson Ter., which at Gilpin’s sug¬ 
gestion was changed to Colorado. Without money or help 
from the new administration, Gov. Gilpin saved the terri¬ 
tory to the Union, amongst the greatest and apparently in¬ 
surmountable obstacles which only his great executive ability 
and systematic exactness could hold in check. 

And although the slanderous tongues and foul means of his 
enemies, mostly secessionists, whose plans he had foiled, made 
it appear to the administration at Washington that a change 
would be for the best, yet Pres. Lincoln always had implicit 
confidence in Gov. Gilpin and requested him to retain charge 
until his successor should arrive. 

In 1863, while on a trip with Frank Clark, treasurer of 
Wells, Fargo & Co. ( wdio was killed ) Gov. Gilpin was so 
seriously wounded that his life was despaired of. For forty 


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seven days he lay in bed, at Sacramento, yet immediately 
upon his recovery, while still in a convalescent state, he man¬ 
aged to save his option on the Beaubien land grant of one mil¬ 
lion acres, one half of which was sold in Amsterdam, at $1. 
an acre, being the means which assisted Gen’l. Palmer in 
raising the first $60,000. with which to commence the con¬ 
traction of the D. & R. G. R. R. which was to run near 
the grant, 

Thus has Gov. Gilpin ever been the first and original pro¬ 
moter of Colorado’s greatness. 

Gov. Gilpin is the fond father of three children, William 
and Mary, twins, and Louis, two years younger. Miss Mary has 
great musical talents, is amiable and graceful and a general 
favorite, while the two sons are the worthy descendants of 
such a sire. 

Gov. Gilpin has published many books which are monuments 
to his thorough erudition, ‘'The Central Gold Region,” “The 
Mission of the North American People,” ( a work which will 
live for the benefit of mankind, when Humboldt’s “Cosmos” 
will be forgotten, ) and just now comes from the press the 
Cosmopolitan Railway,” a book on whose subject - one of 
the utmost importance to mankind - we speak in another and 
separate article. 


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HON. H. A. W. TABOR. 


THE DISCOVERY OF LEADVILLE. 

EX U. S. SENATOR H. A. W. TABOR. 


Great is the man who useful is, 
Whose life to mankind is a bliss, 
Whose perseverance, courage, 

pluck 


Bring him, what idlers call his luck, 
Whose energy has opened mines, 
Whose judgment precious metals 

finds, 







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Whose enterprise makes cities 

great. 

And prosperous his adopted State 

He is the man of whom we sing, 
Whom we a wreath of lam els bring 
And place into a niche of fame, 
Forever, his immortal name. 

There’s not a camp amidst our 

peaks, 

Where miner not his praises speaks, 
There’s not a man of common 

sense 

But who his voice in chorus lends 
To sing the anthems of his praise 
Whose courage did those treasures 

raise 

Which into mountain monsters 

hurled, 

Were hidden from a needy world. 


The mountain lion and the bear, 
Sole monarchs of that region were 
Where Indian hunter even feared 
To tread the soil, of timber cleared 
By Nature’s forces’strong com¬ 
bine 

That marks the Bockies’ timber 

line, 

There came a small, determined 

band. 

To search for gold the waters’ sand. 
« 

But, ages back, Creative Force 
Had laid of treasures, giant stores 
Into the contacts of those rocks 
Whose hardness common mortals 

mocks, 

And there had placed the wily 

Gnomes 

To guard those vaulted treasure 

domes. 


Where mountain peaks touch 

fleeting clouds 
Whose mist those hoary giants 

shrouds. 

Where blizzards, frosts and 

snow abound, 

The cycle of the year around, 

Where mountain upon mount is 

piled, 

Where nature’s rough and barren 

wild. 


Now, when the first prospectors 

came, 

The gnomes laughed at their little 

game, 

In peace, and undisturbed, al¬ 
lowed 

This little, mortal, harmless, crowd, 

The surface of the soil to scratch 

Where they but little gain could 

catch, 

As long as wharlocks always 

foiled 





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The efforts of these men who 

toiled 

In anxious greed for shining gold 
Which down the beds of rivulets 

rolled. 


A council then these spirits held ■ 
Their mocking laughters hoarselj 

yelled 

O’er peaks,into the valleys down 
Wlier’ disappointing sorrows frown 
Upon the men who suffer want, 
Whose forms from cold and hunger 

gliaunt, 

But who determined are to find 
The idol of all greedy mind. 


The chief of gnomes now takes 

the word 

There is no danger from this horde, 
As long as surface gold they seek 
By shoveling sand in stream and 

creek, 

They don’t appear to think or 

know 

What in the contacts lies below; 

Of silver ores they never dream, 
But follow every shallow stream, 
Contented with the smaller stake 
Where giant fortunes are to take. 

These fellows never will expose 
Those treasures which the rocks 

inclose. 

But listen! I hear augurs say 
That, after years, some distant day‘ 


A persevering man will come 
Who, not contented with a crumb, 
Will cast his penetrating eye 
Into these vaults, where treasures 

lie. 

And then, the portals opened 

wide, 

Forevermore, will pour a tide 
Of solid wealth into the hand 
Of commerce, over all this land. 

Some years passed by. The 

little gold 

Which in those streams the sand 

did hold, 

Exhausted, for some time had 

been 

And cheerless was the desolate 

scene. 

Then came a man from Yer- 

mont’s hills, 
Whose fame the civilized world 

now fills, 

But who at that time,was to fame 
A stranger. Tabor is his name. 

As soon as he arrived,the gnomes 
Bedoubled vigilance o’er the 

domes 

In which ihe treasures, safely 

stored, 

All weak attempts of man ignored. 

The chief of mountain sprites, at 

once, 

Saw that this Tabor’s eagle glance 




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Through rocks and hills could 

penetrate. 

Accomplish what the Gods of Fate 
Alone could for Columbia do, 
The panic’s hard times to subdue 
By everlasting streams of ore 
Such as no camp did yet outpour. 

No miner called on him in vain, 
And yet, for years, no solid gain 
Rewarded him for all expense, 
Fate no encouragement him lends, 
Tet perseverance, firm and true, 
He knows, must everything sub¬ 
due, 

He tries and always tries again, 
So that at last, the spirits can 
Resist the hero longer not 
And guide his miners to the spot, 
Where by but very little toil, 
They take from mountains’ virgin 

soil 

Such an amount of glittering 

store 

As mortal never found before. 

The mountains now are full of 


life, 

A miner’s swarm in jealous strife, 
With pick and shovel, hammer, 

drill, 

Turn up the bowels of each hill, 
A city, as by magic, grows, 

Almost from out the ground arose. 

But he whose persevering pluck 

Had first all these bonanzas struck, 
Builds temples to the muses’ 

fame, 

‘By wise investments makes his 

name, 

A household word, all o’er the 

state, 

Which, by the magic now of fate 
Fore’ennore takes the foremost 

place, 

In all the wealth producers’ race. 

The people honor his great 

name, 

Indeed, immortal make his fame, 
.And as the years are rolling by, 

His honors steadily multiply. 



REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS 


IN DENVER. 

In all our great and rapidly developing country, there is no 
ity whose growth has been as marvelous as that of Denver, the 
Queen City of the Plains, the gateway to the mountains with 
their untold wealth, and the focus where all the national high¬ 
ways between the gulf and the Coasts, center. 

A comparison between the years 1870 and 1890, taken from 
the report of the Chamber of Commerce, affords more astonishing 
and yet real information than volumes of arguments could impart. 


1870. 

Inhabitants in Denver. 4,781 

Number of dwellings. 1,128 

Cash value of all merchandise sales. $8,500,000 

Value of manufactures. 608,800 

Lumber trade. 600,000 

Coal trade. 165,000 











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(Country produce. 950,000 

Tons freight received. 48,000 

Value flour manufactured . 75,000 

Value new buildings. 575,000 

Mining statistics.none whatever 


Residence lots, 25x125 feet, range in price from $200 to $800, 
according to location. 


1890. 

Number inhabitants in Denver. 150,000 

Number dwellings. 37,500 

Real estate sales.$60,392,098 

Value of manufactures. 40,453,269 

Lumber trade. 5,000,000 

Coal trade. 2,500,000 

Tons freight received. 900,000 

Value flour manufactured. 1,706,973 

Produce of mines,1890. 36,000,000 


But there are many improvements of importance, not mentioned 
in this table. The rapid transit lines now reach every addition 
within five miles from the center of the city, and run in every 
direction. Cable and Electric Cars, as well as steam motors of 
the very best patterns and construction are employed so that these 
additions are rapidly building up with fine residences as well as. 
with the more modest homes of mechanics who work in the large 
shops and factories erected in these localities. 

A building lot now brings ten times the price that was obtain¬ 
able for a whole acre of ground onlv a few years ago; and yet the 
increase of value has hardly commenced, as the improvements of 
the past are only the beginning, new enterprises being planted 
with every spring. 

School and church facilities in Denver are unsurpassed. 

We have the second largest High School Building in the 
country. The graduates from this institution rank high. 

The University of Denver has an observatory with the fifth 
largest telescope in the world. 

Our eleven national banks are as safe as the safest in the 
country, the volume of wholesale business and amount of freight 
handled here, increases almost miraculously, from year to year. 

Our public buildings and private residences are costly, elegant 
and models of the architectural art, but above all, our supply of 
water is pure and ample while our climate with the fresh ozone of 
















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the mountain air is invigorating and almost in itself a cure of 
most ailments. — Many people have been cured of the asthma 
merely by living here. 

Our real estate values, with all these advantages, are still much 
lower than those in most cities of our size, so that investors 
cannot possibly make a mistake, and need have no fear of shrink¬ 
age in value, but on the other hand, may calmly await the natural 
and unavoidable enhancement of values. 

Denver.never has had what you may call a boom; though rapid 
and steady, our growth has been most natural, consequently there 
can be no fear of a reaction such as other cities have known. 

When out of fifty million dollars’ worth of trust deeds, filed in 
two years, only 181 foreclosures took place, that fact alone proves 
the stability of our Deal Estate values. 

No investor can do better than buy Denver Dealty, either 
inside or suburban, while those who desire to loan their funds at a 
better rate of interest than is obtainable in the East, can do so 
here with perfect security. 

The Deal Estate firms, mentioned in another place, are all re¬ 
liable, and investors will find that they will as conscientiously 
attend to the business of nonresidents as they would to their own. 

REAL ESTATE SALES FOR FOUR YFARS. 



1886 

1887 

1888 

1889 

J anuary. 

$ 209,172 62 

$ 1,683,839 00 

$ 2,106,076 

$ 6,346,392 

February. 

555.977 00 

1,943,041 80 

3,891-052 

6,375,441 

March. 

508,468 00 

3,477,569 28 

5,108,985 

6,111,029 

April. 

791,397 45 

4,901,177 55 

4,563,434 

4,476,407 

May. 

915,922 21 

3,598,841 02 

4,212.028 

3,874.032 

June.• 

1,094,741 21 

2,551,930 18 

2,587,806 

3,500,035 

'July., 

882,395 90 

1,758,249 90 

1,944,450 

2,950,860 

August. 

1,057,23715 

1,585,771 97 

2,054,261 

3,941,589 

September. 

859,235 52 

1,613,686 31 

3,347,667 

6.523,630 

October. 

892,520 30 

1,610,123 63 

3,516,273 

4,584,029 

November. 

1.035.066 19 

2,173,114 00 

3,012,859 

5,814,345 

December. 

2,219,077 36 

2,342,298 00 

5,591,654 

5,894,309 

Total. 

$11,021,208 01 

$29,345,451 82 

$41,935,535 

$60,392,098 


































Table showing loans for the year 1889 in detail. 


BATE. 

NO. 

AMOUNT. 







TOTALS BY MONTHS. 

5 

19 

$ 288,232 




5*4 

6 

172,000 

January. 

1,276 

$ 3,045,645 

6 

693 

4,137,667 

February. 

1,148 

2,720,724 

6M 

1 

170,000 

March. 

1,242 

2,513,741 

6 >4 

17 

248.950 

April. 

977 

2,242,027 

7 

1,573 

4,198,046 

May. 

847 

2,120.526 

7 

11 

218,192 

J une. 

827 

2.152,912 

8 

7,351 

14,191,617 

July. 

917 

1,963,515 

8 Vs 

2 

23,500 

August. 

1,059 

2,188,626 

9 

168 

284,957 

September. 

938 

2,055,583 

10 

1,800 

2,966,222 

October ... . 

1,159 

2,529,108 

12 

316 

429,508 

November. 

1,260 

3,262,510 

Miscel. 

889 

1,917.638 

December. 

1,196 

2,448,612 

Total. 

12,846 

$29,246,529 


12,846 

$29,246,529 


BUILDING OPERATIONS IN DENVER FOR TEN YEARS I 


Year 


Amount 


1880. 

1881. 

1882. 

1883 . 

1884 . 

1885 . 

1886 . 

1887 . 

1888 . 

1889 . 

1890 estimated 


> 3.517,362f 
3,225,483 
2,838488 
1,578,995 
1,900,426 
790,980 
2,000,661 
4,007,050 
6,049,386 
10,807,377 
17,500,000 

















































MINING IN COLORADO. 


Colorado leads all tlpd mining States of the world in the pro 
duetion of precious metals. This leadership she assumed in 1880, 
by virtue of the largest returns and has retained it ever since 
with a steady growth which proves that there is nothing 
spasmodic about Colorado’s mining, but that it rests on solid bus¬ 
iness principles for a foundation. From the days of trail blazers 
who went into the wilderness where Grizzlies snd Mountain Lions 
were the Monarchs, down to the days of the magnificent vestibule 
train which carries you to the very mouth of the mining shaft, 
the same indomitable spirit of American energy has steadily 
pushed the progress of mining work onward in our beautiful 
Centennial State until now our facilities for every detail of our 
work, our means of transportation and our plants for the reduction 
of the ores surpass those of all other mining regions in the world, 
while for natural richness our resources are simply matchless. 






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Mining in Colorado is still in its infancy, not one tenth of our 
mountain area lias been properly prospected, and, every year, new 
mines are found which take high rank. 

We have in Denver a large company of millionaires who came 
here poor and have the mining industry to thank for the founda¬ 
tions of their fortunes and indeed for nearly all they have. 

Many people claim, and they do so seriously that mining does 
not pay,is a lottery,depends on luck and cannot be depended upon. 

The very fact that Colorado, last year, made an output of over 
$36,000,000 in gold and silver, of which more than sixty per cent 
can be accounted as clear, net profits, must thoroughly refute the 
idle talk of all such foolish wiseacres. 

As a matter of fact, there is not an industry under the sun 
which pays as well as mining. 

Statistics prove that it is safer than railroading, banking, mer¬ 
chandising , nay than farming itself. 

For the precious metals there is always a ready market, and 
there never can be any over production. 

With the great inventions, made these last three decades, a few 
men now perform as much agricultural work as was formerly 
done by many; hence farming does not, in proportion, employ as 
many hands as formerly, and many young men crowd our Cities 
where in consequence everything is overdone, and thus hard times 
are the natural result. 

Then again, while the volume of business in our country has 
largely grown, the circulating medium has not been increased in 
proportion. 

We all know that our country needs more money, and while it 
is a known fact that our North American Andes contain large 
quantities of gold and silver, out of which to coin money, such a 
state of affairs should not exist- 

If a majority of our people who have money to invest, instead 
of placing it into speculative real-estate deals which create no 
values but only enhance fictitious valuations, would place it into 
mining enterprises, they would not only make very handsome 





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profits for themselves, but mining would receive such an impetus 
that our output would soon double and treble and there would be 
a sufficiency of currency with which to transact the business of 
the country without a stringency in the money market. 

Nor need people be rich in order to invest in mining. 

As small a sum as $100 and even $50 may be employed with 
very satisfactory results. It is not necessary to invest in the 
largest properties or the highest priced stocks . When you buy 
a lot in a grown up town, you have to pay a price which leaves 
small chance for a great increase, but where you bought in th 
embryo city at small cost, there you reaped your harvest when 
the city became a Metropolis. 

Just so in mining. Prospects give you larger opportunities for 
profits than mines do, and they afford you nearly always exactly 
the same degree of safety. 

In mining as in other securities and staples there are stock man¬ 
ipulators who daily press down or raise up prices and have com¬ 
paratively very little to do with legitimate mining, except to use 
its honest name for unholy gains. 

But there are hundreds of honest sons of toil who hammer the 
drill, and use the pick and shovel, pack burros and do real camp 
work. These are the men who know more about mining that 
the kid-gloved gentry. They are the safest guides for the in¬ 
vestor by far, and we would advise out* reader to address these 


men. 





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Fountain on Public Square at Manitou Springs, donated to 
the City by Hon. J. B, Wheeler, the Banker and Bonanza King 
of Aspen and Manitou, one of Colorado’s most enterprising men. 
























































































City Hall. U. S. Custom House. Court House. Capitol, Mint. 


































































































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STATE OFFICERS OF COLORADO. 

Terms expire January 1893. 

Governor, John L. Routt. 

Lieutenant Governor, Wm. Story. 

Secretary of State, E. J. Eaton. 

Treasurer, Jas. N. Carlisle. 

Superintendent Public Instruction, N. B. Coy. 
Attorney General, J. H. Maupoin. 

Adjutant General, W. A. Kennedy. 

Warden of Penitentary, W. A. Smith. 

state land board: 

John L. Routt., Governor. 

E. J. Eaton, Secretary of State. 

S. H. Maupoin, Attorney General. 

N. A. Coy, Superintendent Public Instruction. 
Register, Matt France, 

Dep’y. Reg,, W. W Ware. 

Appraiser, J. M. Galloway. 

STATE BOARD OF CAPITOL MANAGERS: 

Governor, John L. Routt. 

Ex-Governor, J. A. Cooper. 

C. A. Hughes, Jr. 

Otto Mears. 

Benj. F. Crowell. 

STATE BOARD OF CHARITIES: 

Rev. Myron Reed. 

Dennis Sheedv, 

John C. Hay. 

Jacob S. Apple. 

William F Holcomb. 

B. F. Johnson. 

UNITED STATES SENATORS. 

H. M. Teller. 

Ed. O. Wolcott, 

REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS. 

Hosea Townsend. 



WOLFE HALL, DENVER. 

































































































































































































































































































































































HISTORY OF COLORADO. 

The history of the great Centennial State, probably begins in 
the dim dawn of tradition, when Indian lore pointed to the moun¬ 
tain ridges for the great motherlode of gold. 

This was a dream which, in the very nature of things, could not 
be realized then. — It has been, since, although in a very modified 
form, yet fully as magnificent. 

The chevalier Coronado found not the gold, when he came in 
1540, by command of his emperor Charles Y, the tyrant of the 
Reformation. Although he was a great Knight of the blood, yet 
he lacked the brain and the nerve by which later prospectors un¬ 
locked the treasure vaults of the Rockies. 

The perils of his expedition which were of a very different char¬ 
acter from those, the undaunted Knight had ever before encoun¬ 
tered, upset his reason, and Charles Y profited only the empty 
title of Sovereign over a howling wilderness, where liords of sav¬ 
ages roamed and lived and hunted, while not one of them ever 
knew that such a Majesty lived and wanted to be acknowledged. 















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And these savages were not again molested for a long time. 

In 1805, Lieut. Zebulon Pike with twenty three men of the U. 
S. Army, made his way to the Peak which has, ever since, borne 
his name. 

Pie discovered no gold, but lie found what has been of more 
value to the State of Colorado and to the people of all the world, 
he first tasted the finest mineral waters on the globe, the great life 
giving fountains of Manitou. 

In 1819, Col. S. H. Long came out and gave his name to one 
of the prominent peaks of the State, but he also effected no per¬ 
manent settlement. 

The expeditions of Col. Bonneville, in 1832 and of the “Path¬ 
finder” Fremont in 1842 — 1844, resulted in no establishments. 

Indeed, the settlements of the State, like those of the early col¬ 
onies, were made in two different quarters, one South, one North. 

The Southern part of the State has the oldest settlements, just 
as Jamestown is prior to Plymouth Pock. 

In 1854, Lafayette Head (since then Lieut. Gov. of Colo.) with 
fifty men from New Mexico formed the Conejos settlement,where 
a Jesuit Mission and school were established, soon after. This 
settlement was, in 1855, besieged by the Utes and Apaches, and 
the good fathers as well as their flock experienced great hardships. 

Other settlements rapidly grew up in Southern Colorado, the 
principal industry being sheep-raising. Even agriculture thrived, 
so much so, that in 1864 already, Maj. Head erected the first 
flouring mill in that section of the State. 

It will be understood that Southern Colorado was settled prin¬ 
cipally by people of Spanish extraction, a fact which is still appar¬ 
ent every where, especially in the momenclature of the country. 

The Northern part of Colorado probably acknowledges Green 
Pussell of Georgia with his party as the first permanent settlers. 

They arrived in 1858, just after the financial crash of 1858, 
when everybody wanted gold. 

Pussell Gulch is known to this day. 

This portion of the State was then a portion of the Territory of 



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Kansas, and as soon as the first scant settlements had been made 
at Auraria* (now West Denver) Denver, Boulder, Fountain City, 
etc., the County of Arapahoe, Kansas, was organized. 

In 1859, came the Pike’s Peak and Cherry Creek gold excite¬ 
ments. John II. Gregory came to Central and Black Hawk and 
discovered gold. 

In those days, mining was carried on in a somewhat primitive 
way. The discoverer, by the Mining District laws, was allowed 
only 200 feet on the lode, while all others could have but 100 feet. 

In Placers on Tarryall creek, each man was allowed 150 feet 
along the stream. 

In 1858, W. A. H. Loveland founded Golden, and in the 
same year, on April 23rd, the first newspaper in Colorado, the 
Pocky Mountain News, was issued. The same paper is still, 
after thirty-two years, a flourishing daily, and a credit to modern 
Journalism and a western monument to Western pluck, persever¬ 
ance and enterprise, having withstood the greatest calamities and 
always risen, like a Phoenix, to more magnificent usefulness. 

In 1859, also the Pikes Peak Express Company established a 
stage line from the Missouri Biver to Denver. The distance of 
over seven hundred miles was then made in six days and nights. 
Only six passengers could find room. Look at the contrast, now 
now we have a dozen heavy trains come in every day. In 1862, 
this stage line passed into the ownership of Ben Holliday, and 
later on, into that of Wells Fargo & Co. 

Our people early had ambition to be a State.- In 1859 already, a 
Constitutional Convention assembled, but the organic law, they 
framed, was rejected by a vote of 2007 against it with only 649 
for it. 

In Oct., 1859, B. I). Williams was sent to Washington to organ¬ 
ize Jefferson Territory. That was the first name of Colorado, 
Gov. Gilpin finally named the future State. 

In 1860, was established the famous Pony Express which made 
the distance from the Missouri Piver to the Pacific Coast in from 
eight to nine days, while formerly the trip by steamer, from Hew 


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York to San Francisco had taken fully three weeks. Soon, all 
the IT. S. Mail was carried by this conveyance. The riders had 
to be bold and vigilant men, they were often attacked by Indians 
even the relay stations were frequently sacked and the stock, kept 
there for changes, driven off by the savage aborigines, 

In those days, the freight rates were ten to twenty cents a 
pound, an enormous price, compared with to-day although only 
about one fifth of what they had been, a few years previous. 

The gold out-put, thus early, was considerable 

Placers, alone from 1860-63, produced in: 

Boulder County,.$ 400,000 

Gilpin, u . 2,500,000 

Clear Creek, “ 1,600,000 

Park, County . 1,500,000 

Summit 4 4 ' 44 5,000,000 

Besides the lode mining which, especially in Gilpin County, 
produced very much more. 

The Territory of Colorado was finally organized by Act of 
Conoress, on February, 26th, 1861, and Col. "WTn. Gilpin ap¬ 
pointed the first Governor. 

He arrived in May, and at once took a census finding the 
population to be 25,320 of whom only 4,484 were females. 

Without a dollar or any aid from the general government 
Gov. Gilpin, organized and equipped two regements of soldiers 
who rendered splendid service for the Union. 

II. P, Bennett was the first delegate in Congress. 

In May 1862, John Evans of Chicago succeeded Win. Gilpin as 
Governor. 

On July 11th, 1864, a State Convention again assembled, 
Congress having, previously, passed an enabling act, but the Con¬ 
stitution was again rejected by a vote of 5006 to 4219. 

The next year, another Convention formed a Constitution. It 
was adopted by 3025 votes against 2870, while, at the same elec¬ 
tion negro suffrage was defeated by 476 votes for, to 4192 against 

it. 







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In November 1865, the first State officers were chosen, as follows; 
Governor, Wm. Gilpin, Lieut. Gov., G. A. Hinsdale, Congress¬ 
man, Geo. M. Chilcott. U. S. Senators, John Evans and Jerome 
B. Chaffee. 

But they could not take their seats, as Pres. Andrew Johns on 
vetoed the bill, admitting the State. 

In 1876, finally, the State was admitted, and the following 
State officers were chosen: 

Governor, John L. Routt. 

Lieut. Gov. Lafayette Head. 

Sec’y- State, Wm. M. Clark. 

Auditor, L. 0. Crawford, 

Treas. Geo. C. Corning, 

Attorney Gen’l, A J. Sampson, 

Supt. Public Inst., J. C. Shattuck, 

In 1876, the total vote of the State was 27,470, in 1878, 28,759 
the Census of 1870 showed a total population of 39,864, of 
which there were 24,720 males and 15,044 females. 

Colorado’s greatest development only commenced with her ad¬ 
mission into the Union. At that time, Denver and Pueblo were 
mere villages, Leadville was not in existence, Trinidad not known. 
To- dav these are centers of trade and activity. 

In 1876, Colorado’s total mineral output was $6,191,907,in 
1890, $29, 880, 734. 

The discovery of carbonates at Leadville, was by all means the 
most important event in the State’s history. 

A large city sprung up as if by magic, large fortunes were made, 
thousands of men were employed, but above all the first men who 
wrought this great change, with true patriotism and State—loy¬ 
alty, invested their means in the development of the State. 

Gov. Tabor’s example in erecting magnificent structures at 
Denver, was soon followed by others, and the city first, commenc¬ 
ed to be a Metropolis. 

The State Governor’s of Colorado have been: 




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John L. Routt, R. elected 1876. 

F. W. Pitkin, R. “ 1878-80 

J. B, Grant, D, “ 1882 

B. E. Eaton, R. “ 1884 

Alva Adams, D. “ 1886 

Job A. Cooper, R. “ 1888 

John L. Routt, R. “ “ 1890 

% 

The IT. S. Senators of Colorado, have been: 

H. M. Teller, elected, 1876 

Jerome B. Chaffee, “ 1876 

N. P. Hill, *• 1879 

Geo. M. Chilcott appointed 1882 

H. A. W. Tabor, elected 1883 

Thos. Bowen, “ 1883 

Henry M. Teller, “ 1885 

Ed O. Wolcott, “ 1889 

Henry M. Teller, 1891 


The State has been represented in Congress by Thos. B. Pat¬ 
terson from ’76 to ’79. James B. Belford from '79 to ’85, G, G-. 
Symes from 85 to 89 and since then by BLosea Townsend. All 
these Representatives are Republicans, except Mr. Patterson who 
is a Democrat. 

Since ’79, the discovery of Leadville, the history of the 
State has been one continuous and grand onward march to great¬ 
ness and prosperty, In 84, another marvelously rich camp, As¬ 
pen, now a thriving city, was added to the sources of wealth, and 
has since been a close rival to Leadville. 

In another place, we give the output of 90, by counties. 

Many new camps which have not yet had the benefit of capital 
are ready to come to the front. 

Under Gov. Adams’ administration, theUtes were inclined to 
make trouble, but the Colorado militia promptly suppressed them 
and they have not annoyed any one since, indeed they have been 
removed from the State. 



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ROYAL GORGE, GRAND CANON, ON LINE OF D. & R. G, 
R. R. THIS IS THE GRANDEST WORKMANSHIP OF THE 
ARCHITECT OF THE UNIVERSE IN AMERICA. 

























































89 


STATE SENATE 


W. II. Adams. 


D. C. Bailey (Elbert). 


M. S. Bailey (Park) . . 


II. S. Balsinger. 


C. Barela. 


Fred Betts. 

.Pueblo 

M. B. Carpenter. 


F. T. Cochrane. 


J, E. Gardner. 


Wm. Gelder. 

. Glen wood Springs 

A T. Gunnell. 


A. F. Howes. 

.Fort Collins 

J. A. Israel. 


John King. 

.Leadville 

J, W. McGreery. 

.Greeley 

A. A. McGovney.... 

. .Colorado Springs 

A. B. McKinley. 


J. Y. Oliver. 

.Leadville 

F. W. Smith (Mesa). . 

.Denver 

B. L. Smith (Huerfano).Ft. Garland 

Amos Steck. 

.Denver 

A. Walters. 

.West Cliff 

R. B. Weiser. 

.Gorgetown 

E. C. Wells. 

.Golden 

E. H. Whitney Jr. .. . 

.Boulder 

L. N. White. 


Mr. President 



Win. Story 


Ouray 





























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Members of the Lower House of the Eight General Assembly 

of Colorado. 


A. P. Adams.Pico 

C. II. Alden.La Junta 

E. M. Ammons.Castle Pock 

George Bell.. Pueblo 

C. Bowman.Walsenburg 

E. A. Bromley.Brighton 

J. S, Brown (Araphoe).Denver 

II. P. Brown (Jefferson P. O. Box 1100, 

Denver 

C. M. Campbell.Denver 

D. F. Carmichael.Brighton 

F. F. Castello.Florissant 

C. J. Chapman.Fort Collins 

F. M. Coombs.Aspen 

George Dollis.Leadville 

P. Eaton.Leadville 

IP II. Eddy.Axial 

H. Eldodt.Alamosa 

J. P. Flickinger.Pueblo 

J. W. Hanna.Durango 

S. IV. Hathaway.Fort Garland 

J. J. Hendricks.Trinidad 

A. P. Kennedy.Buena Yista 

M. Leahy.Central 

E. Mitchell.Silver Cliff 

D. TV. Mullin.Denver 

J. Howland.Leadville 

T. F. O’Mahoney..Leadville 

T. O’Connor.Boulder 

J. E. Reynolds.Colorado Springs 

W. H. Richards.Central City 

A. P. Pittenliouse.Denver 

































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% 

0. W. Sanborn.Boulder 

L. B. Schwanbeck.Denver 

F. P. Secor.Boulder 

B. T. Shaw.Silver Plume 

W. Sullivan.Silverton 

T. Thornton.Canon City 

J. F. Topping.Dumont 

L. B. Tucker.Agate 

IT. W. Twombly.Brush 

William Van Der Weyden.Denver 

Balph Voorhees.Denver 

B. P. Wallace.Del Norte 

O. M. Warner .Gilman 

D. P. Wilmot .;.Evergreen 

B. L. Wooten.Trinidad 

G. H. Zacharias.Lake City 

Speaker Jesse White .Silver Cliff 





















Counties. 


Archuleta 

Baca 

Bennt 

Boulder 

Chaffee 

Cheyenne 

Clear Creek 
Conejos 

Costilla 

Custer 

Delta 

Dolores 

Douglas 

Eagle 

Elbert 

El Paso 

Fremont 

Garfield 

Gilpin 

Grand 

Gunnison 

Hinsdale 

Huerfano 

Jefferson 

Kiowa 

Kit Carson 

Lake 



COUNTY OFFICERS 


County Clerk. 

E. M. Taylor 
J. E. Church 
H. Frey 
J. Cowin 

E. G. Bettis 
W. L. Patchen 

B. C. Catrar. 

D. Frank 

C. F. Meyers 
A. H, Henning 
A. Wishart 

F. R. Lewis 
H. Jones 

G. E. Bowland 
L. Ramsay 

F. W. Howbert 

G. R. Cassedy 
T. W. Leonard 
J. S. UpdegrafT 

E. J. Jones 

S. P. Spencer 
G. F. Fry 

F. O. Roof 
A. Townsend 
W. Lafferty 

D Kavanaugh 
E Dale 


Treasur, 

J. L. Dowell 
R. W. Devinny 
J. E. Donlan 

D.R. McNaughton 
J. M. Bonney 
J. W. Lamb 
J. M. Watts 

C. H. Brinkenstein 

F. Sauches 
J. Dietz 

A. K- Howard 
W. W. Parshall 

G. A. Triplett 
J. L. Campbell 

G. A. Wood 

H. C. McCreery 

L. E. Frank 
J- F. McLean 

D. A. Homer 
W. P. Faris 
P. Daily 
D. S Hoffman 
A. Levy 
C. T. Clark 
R. Miller 
G. B. Bent 

M. F. Eagan 


Count}' Judge. 

J. M. Archuleta 

E. C. Nowells 
J. Bradford 
G. Rogers 
R. Linderman 
R. H. Sheets 
L, H. Shephard 

L. M. Peterson 
Vacant 

J. G. Schweeghart 
G. W. Henry 
A. Kennedy 
R. E. Palur 
J. B. Phillippi 

G. Fahrion 
J. W. Severy 

M. S. Adams 
J. L. Noonan 
W. J. Thomas 
D. B6ck 

J. M. McDougal 
T’ J. McKenna 

H. Daly re 

J. M. Barnes 
R. W. Hutchcraft 
P. B. Godsman 
W. R. Hall 

















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La Plata 

G. Weaver 

J. F. Bell 

H. Garbanati 

Larimer 

J. D. Budrow 

F. P. Stover 

H. J. Garbutt 

Las Animas 

J. M. Garcia 

T. B. Collier 

W. G. Hines 

Lincoln 

A. K. Ladue 

1. P. Dickinson 

J. W. Williams 

Logan 

C. L. Lake 

M. Thingaw. 

C* E. Armour 

Mesa 

A. C. McCune 

T. B. Crawford 

W. A. Marsh 

Montezuma 

F. Humble 

J. White 

M. T. Morris 

Montrose 

J . B. Killan 

H. W. Christopher 

A. G. Thompson 

Morgan 

T. D. Heiskell 

W. B. Sinton 

J. H. Jones 

Otero 

J. E. Gianger 

J. Fisher 

U. Sebree 

Ouray 

F. J. Parkins 

J. S. Myers 

W. M. Stewart 

Parks 

A. E. Vandusen 

J.W. Sykes 

J. I finger 

Phillips 

C. E. McPherson 

B. A. Hoskins 

J. Glynn 

Pitkin 

A. Mulqueen 

L. D. Sweet 

P. England 

Prowers 

H. J. Gochenours 

M. D. Parmenter 

J. K. Doughty 

Pueblo 

T. Thompson 

W. P. Gartley 

M. J- Galligan 

Rio Blanco 

L, B. Walbridge 

H.J. Hay 

W- A. Greenstreet 

Rio Grande 

W. D. Gook 

O. Bonner 

J. H. Baxter 

Routt 

C. E. Baker 

S. D. Wilson 

J. W. Wallbridge 

Saguache 

C.D. Jones 

H. G. Wile 

R. H. Jones 

San Juan 

M, W. Emery 

F. B. Brown 

M. Stockman 

San Miguel 

C. S. Watson 

J. Me Williams 

W. L. McGarvey 

Sedgwick 

D. B. Morgan 

O. Liddel 

J. S. Carnhan 

Summit 

W. F. Forman 

H. H. Elwood 

T. E. Eastland 

Washington 

W. H’ Sherman 

A. S. George 

W. T. Skelton 

Weld 

F. P. Frost 

H. G. Thompson 

E. A. Thompson 

Y uma 

F. A. Williams 

A. N. Turney 

G, Pendleton. 







STATE OF COLORADO. 


COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS OF SCHOOLS, 

FKOM JANUARY 1 S 90 TO JANUARY 1892. 


COUNTY. 

NAME. 

POST OFFICE. 

Arapahoe. 



Archuleta. 



Baca. 



Bent.. 



Boulder.. 



Chaffee. 



Cheyenne. 

. ...S. C. Perry. 


Clear Creek. 



Conejos. 

.... L. A. Norland. 


Costilla. 

.... Frederick Etter. 

.Fort Garland 

Custer. 

.. . . Prior Walters. 


Delta. 



Dolores. 



Douglas. 



Eagle.. 


.Red Cliff 

Elbert. 

. ...B. C. Killin. 


El Paso. 



Fremont. 


.Canon City 

Garfield. 

_S. M. White. 


Gilpin. 

. . .. F. B. McLean. 


Grand. 



Gunnison. 



Hinsdale. 



Huerfano. 



















































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Jefferson .... . 

.I. S. Fagleton. 


Kiowa... 



Kit Carson... 



Lake. 



La Plata. 



Larimer. 

.S. T. Hamilton.... .. 


Las Animas. . 



Lincoln. 



Logan. 

.••••.. W. B. Wheeler. 


Mesa. 



Montezuma.. 



Montrose. 

.J. J. Tobin. 


Morgan. 



Otero. 



Ouray. 



Hark. 



Phillips. 



Pitkin. 

.E. C. Stimson. 


Prowers. 



Pueblo-... 



Rio Blanco... 

.C. W. Foreman. 


Rio Grande... 

.Jesse Stephenson. 


Routt. 


. .Steamboat Springs 

Saguache. 



San Juan. 



San Miguel.... 

.H. C. Lay. 


Sedgwick. 



Summit. 



Washington.. 



Weld. 

.W. C. Thomas. 


Yuma. 

.M. W. Haver. 





























































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HISTORY OF THE CITY OF DENVER. 


Denver is truly the “marvel of the age.” Here is a city which, when first 
founded, was six hundred miles from anywhere, surrounded bv barren rocks and 
bleaker plains. 

Chicago had her fertile fields and great lakes, Kansas City had fine agricult¬ 
ural lands and a fast developing country, all around her, but Denver, when first 
settled, was in midst of a trackless waste. 

It took, indeed, men of great foresight, of courage and pluck, to locate here. 

Marvelous, as it may seem, then already, several of our prominent men of to¬ 
day, foretold the present, and even the future, greatness of the State and City. 

As Gov. Gilpin says, these men were not prophets nor the sons of prophets, 
neither were they over-sanguine; they merely used their keen powers of observ¬ 
ation and drew the legitimate conclusions. 

The first settlement of Denver was made, several miles up the Platte River 
and was known as the “Mexican Diggings,” at the mouth of- Dry Creek, where 
gold was then found in paying quantities, being, however, soon exhausted. 

In November 1858, Auraria was laid out on the West bank of Cherry Ci'eek, 
it being named by Green Russell after his town in Georgia. 

Jack Jones built the first house, before the town site had been surveyed. One 
hundred and twenty five mansions, mostly dug-outs and log cabins, were erected 
during the winter 1858 - 9. 

The St- Charles town site, now East Denver, was laid out about the same time 
and soon commenced to prosper. Very shortly after, the town site changed 
hands and was named Denver, in honor of J. W. Denver of Leavenworth, then 
Governor of Kansas, of which territory Arapahoe County formed a part. 

Col. Richaid D. Whitsitt ,the Secretary of the new town company of Denver, 
was a liberal and enterprising man, he offered several lots to any one who 
would build a house, and in this way he kept nearly pace with the improvvements 
of the rival town Auraria. 


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In March, 59, a saw mill arrived, and now the rivalry between the two towns 
on the two banks of Cherry Creek became more keen than ever. 

March 28th, 1859, the first election for county officers was held and the pony 
express to the Missouri River established. 

On Apiil 21st of the same year, the first load of lumber arrived here and also 
Wm. N. Byers, with the material for the Rocky Mountains New’S. 

The building of frame houses was now commenced and Denver’s name and 
fame spread over the land. 

In the summer of 1859, when both towns, Auraria and Denver, hardly con¬ 
tained three hundred houses. Horace Greeley paid the state a visit and con¬ 
vinced himself that the mountains contained gold. His card in the Rocky 
Mountain News and his letters to the New York Herald were the first effective, 
and prol ably the most beneficial advertising, Denver and Colorado have ever 
had, as thousands read them and turned their eves in this direction. 

November 1859, the first legislature of Jefferson Territory met in Denver, and 
granted the city a charter with John C. Moore for Mayor. R. W. Steele acted 
as provisional Governor. As Congress had not authorized the organization of 
the territory, and Arapahoe County was still a portion of the Territory of Kan¬ 
sas, it is self evident that the acts of that legislature were void. 

In I860, and for veais thereafter, Blake Street was the principal thoroughfare. 

April 3rd, the towns of Auraria and Denver were consolidated, and in May 
i860, Thos. Gibson established the first daily paper, the Rock}' Mountain Herald. 

January 26 th I861, Denver already polled 1291 votes, and East Denver polled 
the large majority of them, having completely outgrown the former rival, Au¬ 
raria, now West Denver. 

May 29th 1861, Hon. William Gilpin, the first territorial Governor arrived, 
just when his presence was most urgently needed. He found the settlement in 
a feverish state of excitement over the secession of the Southern States. As 
will be remembered, Russel and the first settlers had been Geoigians, their 
Southern following was very large, and nothing but the firm hand and great 
executive ability of Gov. Gilpin could have saved the territory to the Union, at 
that time. 

The legislature of 1861 gave the city the first valid charter. 

April 16 th,iS52, Congress established the Denver mint, purchasing the pri. 
vate institution which Clark, Gruber & Co., had founded in i860. 

April 19th, 1863, the entire business portion of the city was laid in ashes, but 
was at once re-built in better shape. 


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May 19th, I864, the great flood in Cherry Creek took place and did an immense 
amount of damage. 

In the spring of 1865, there was great excitement, caused by the Indian war 
which, however was soon brought to a close. 

In i 867 , two rail roads commenced to build, both pointing this way; as they 
came nearer and nearer, Denver became more and more prosperous and real 
estate prices began to assume some proportions. 

In 1868 Denver, almost unanimously, voted bonds for the construction of the 
Denver Pacific Railroad, and ground was broken; January 1st, 1869, Denver was 
for the first time connected with the world by telegraph wires, and June 22nd 

1870, brought the first rail road train, soon followed, August 15th, by the first 
Kansas Pacific train. Both these events were occasions for great rejoicing. 

It would fill volumes, were w r e to enumerate all the rail road enterprises, 
since inaugurated and completed. Suffice it to say that now nineteen rail roads 
center here and more will come in the near future. Over seventv trains daily 
enter the city. The Denver, Texas & Fort Worth R. R. brought us as close to 
salt water as Cincinnati is, and has made Denver a terminal point for most roads 
that heretofore considered the Missouri River as such. 

Thus Kansas City and Omaha have actually become only important way sta¬ 
tions on the trunk lines which run between Chicago and Denver. 

M hile in i860, the building of a two-story frame house was an event of impor¬ 
tance, the erections of eight and nine s f ory blocks are now the order of the day. 

The City government is a vast machinery. 

The City Treasurer, from Jan, to Dec., 1st, 1890, received $958,020.55 and dis¬ 
bursed $998,820.32, the grand total of the money he handled, being $1,213,359.98. 

The expenditures were: 


Police and Jail.$ 117 327.60 

• Fire Department..« 148,734.59 

Sprinkling.“ .45,055.83 

Public Parks...«.. 13,232.64 

Water .“..68,634.71 

Health Department.« 62,090.29 

City Engineer..... “..19,349.18 

Public I improvements.. 2,742.24 

Electric Light and Gas.“ • . 52 875 95 


Ihe school system of Denver will compare with that of any city in America 












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There are three High Schools, the one of East Denver being the second largest 
High School Building in the U. S. and was erected at a cost of $300,000. 

It would lead too far to give an elaborate description of it. Then there are 
twenty-six other large school houses, valued at two millions and the following 
private institutions. The University of Denver, (Methodist Episcopal) with very 
extensive buildings, Manual Training School, Art School, Medical School and 
the splendid new Chamberlain Observatory, whose telescope ranks fifth in the 
United States. 

College of the Sacrad Heart (Jesuit, built of stone), costing half a million dollars. 

Wolfe Hall, Ladies Seminary, (Episcopal), splendid new stone building in a 
beautiful location, the value of the property being a quarter of a million. 

Jarvis Hall, Boys’ College (also Episcopal), a magnificent new brick building, 
also in a supburb location and costing $75,000. 

Ladies’ College, Vassal* (Baptist) which is to cost $250,000. 

St. Mary’s Academy (Sisters of Loretto), one of the oldest and best attended 
institutions of the city, the property being worth a quarter of a million. 

The Gross Medical College. 

The Colorado Medical and Surgical Institute. 

The State School of Mines is located at Golden, ten miles from the city. 
Denver also has four Commercial Colleges and numerous private schools, in¬ 
cluding free evening schools, during winter. 


THE DENVER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. 


The first Board of Trade in Denver was organized November 14th 1867, when 
the city had hardly three thousand inhabitants, with the following officers: 

Pres. John Smith; first and second vice presidents, John Pierce and Isaac Brin 
ker; directors, W. M. Clayton, J. H. Morrison F. Z, Salomon, J. M. Strickler, 
Geo. Tritch, D. H. Moffat, Richard E. Whitsitt and J. Sidney Brown. 

Henry C. Leach was secretary and Frank Palmer treasurer. Most of these 
gentlemen are still prominent in the city’s business circles. 

The main efforts of this organization were directed towards rail road building, 
although they exercised great influence over public enterprises and did much 
for the State’s future. 

When, however, the main object had been accomplished by the advent of two 
railroads, the board died out, about the year 1862, and for eight years, Denver 
was without such an organization. 

November 12th 1880, when Denver had already commenced to put on Met¬ 
ropolitan airs and attained a population of 36,000, the “Merchants” Board of 
Trade was organized, with Joseph T. Cornforth as Pres., J. F. Brown and N. B. 
Me Crary vice presidents and Louis Mathews Secretary. 

In 1881, the word “Merchants” was eliminated and the Board of Trade incor¬ 
porated under State law. 

In 1882, N. B. Me Crary was chosen Tres., W. S. Marshall, secretary, and 
W.J. Kinsey treasurer. 






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The Board did much for the city, as a deliberative body but only seldom held 
open board for the sale of merchandise, and no records were kept of the trans¬ 
actions. 

In 1883, A. W. Waters was chosen Pres., J. F. Mathews and M. J. McNamara 
vice-pres., W. M. Bliss, treas. and W. S. Marshall, secretary. 

January 1st. of the following year, a Chamber of Commerce was organized. 

A large membership was at once secured, a buildidg fund established into 
which all initiation fees ($50 each) were paid, and the annual dnes were fixed at 
$12.00 

January 29 th. the following officers were elected: Pres., R. W. Woodbury; 
vice presidents, H. A. W. Tabor, John H. Martin, James Duff and Jacob Scherer 
Directors, J. T. Brown, D. H. Moffat, Edward Eddy, M. J. McNamara, Edward 
B. Light, B. P. Brasher, [ohn Evans, J. J. Riethman, A. W. Waters, W. J. Kin¬ 
sey, Nelson Hallock and Charles Hallack. 

In March of the same year, the Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade 
were consolidated, when a new constitution and by-laws were adopted, and all 
the old officers resigning, the following Board of Directors chosen. R. W- 
Woodbury, J. F. Brown, J. F. Mathews, M. J. McNamara, John Evans, Rodney 
Curtis, Joseph T. Cornforth, Jacob Scheerer, H. A. W. Tabor, Edward B. Light, 
Nelson Hallock, Chas. F. Wilson and C. B. Kountze. 

Committees were appointed, and each assigned its work, Those on railroad 
and manufactures have done especially valuable services. 

In 1884, the Chamber took the Exposition in hand. This great undertaking 

had been a disastrous failure to the originators. Although the exhibition has 

never been a financial success, it has been of incalculable benefit to all the 

material interests of the State and City, has brought a large amount of capital 

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and built up important enterprises. No exposition did more in this respect 
than the one held in 1884. 

In December, 18S4, notice was given that on January, 1st., of the following 
year, the initiation fee would be raised to $100. The enrollment was rapid, and 
when January, 1st., arrived, the membership was 432. A resolution was then 
passed, limiting the membership to 450. 

The officers for the year i 884 were: President, R. W. Woodbury, vice-presi¬ 
dents, M. J. McNamara and J. F. Mathews; treasurer, W. D. Todd, secretary, 
Frank Hall. 

This first year of the Chamber’s existence was one of great activity for the 
welfare of the city. A charter was planned for adoption by the incoming 
egislature, also a fee bill to prohibit County officers from making extortionate 


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charges, the building fund was much enlarged a reduction of freights secured 
from the railways, and in fine the work done was so satisfactory that all the 
directors and officers were, in 1885, re-elected. 

September, 23rd., 1885 , the building now occupied by the Chamber, was ded- 
scated with the usual ceremonies. in the selection of the site the officers ex- 
cercised a great deal of practical shrewdness, as they finally, secured the ground 
on a lease for ninety-nine years at an annual rental of one dollar. 

July, 17th., 1885, it was first decided to fonnd a mercantile library which 
should be free to all the people. 

The year 1885, if possible surpassed the preceding one for usefulness. The 
railroads had discriminated against Denver, and this fact had kept away many 
enterprises. An agreement was effected with them which made every thing 
fair and satisfactory. The Board published this fact to the world., and several 
valuable institutions were the result. Steps were also taken to establish here 
military post which, by persistent efforts has become an establihed fact. 

In 1886, the directors again re-elected all the officers, a fact which shows how 
acceptably they had performed their work. 

During this year, the mercantile library rnd museum were fitted up, a success¬ 
ful exhibition was held in the rink and a large annex, several visiting bodie 
were entertained and a great deal of advertising was done for Denver. 

In 1887, the following officers were chosen: Pres,. E. M. Ashley, vice-pres’ts 
J. W. Nesmith and W. J. Barks, Secy., Frank Hall; Treas., William D. Todd. 
In 1888, Donald Fletcher was made Pres., with W. J. Barker and Chas. D. Cobb 
as vice-presidents and the old secretary and treasurer. In 1889 H. B. Chamberlin 
became President, W. J. Barker and John Arkins vice-presidents; C. H. Rey 
nolds Secretary and W. D. Todd, Treasurer. In 1890, J. B. Porter was 
elected Pres; Jos. E. Bates and J. M. Berkey vice-presidents; C. H. Reynolds 
secretary and R. W. Woodbury treasurer. 

The officers for 1S91 are; Pres., lion. H. A. W. Tabor, Vice-Presidents, Jas., 

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Leonard and Jno. W-Nesmith, Secretary, Olney Newell, treasurer, R. W, 
Woodbury. The directors are: Hon. H A. W. Tabor, Jas. Leonard t J. M. 
Berkey, R. W. Speer, C. H. Sage, John ,W Nesmith, E. Monash, H. M. Porter 

G. G. Leibhardt, E. L. Scholtz, S. M. Allen, S. Id. Elbert, I. B. Porter. 

The Secretary is just now preparing the annuall report which will be an elab- 

rate book, full of accurate information about every detail of the commerce, 
traffic and industries of the city and finely illustrated. 

He will be glad to send the same, as soon as published, which will be in two 
or three weeks, to any one who desires to learn more about Denver. 




HON. JOHN L. ROUTT, 

Governor of Colorado. 

This gentleman was born in Caldwell Co., Ky., during the 
year 1826. His father died, while he was yet an infant. When 
ten years old, he came to Bloomington, 111., where he learned the 
trade of a builder and machinist, at which he was engaged until 
twenty-live years old, when he was elected Sheriff of Me Lean Co. 

In 62, he went to the war as Capt. of Comp. E, 94tli Ill Yols. 







and participated in the battle of Prairie Grove, Ark., where he 
came very near being killed, three bullets passing through his 
clothes. In 1S63, lie joined Grant’s forces before Vicksburg and 
was engaged in that siege until the surrender, after which he went 
to Port Hudson, and later to Texas. 

In 1865, he was mustered out, and when he reached home, he 
was astonished to find himself nominated to the office of Co. Treas¬ 
urer of Me Lean Co., Ill., to which he was triumphantly elected. 

In November 1869, he was appointed Chief Clerk of the bureau 
of the Second Asst Post Master General, where he served with 
distinction, and in 1870, Pres, Grant made him TJ. S. Marshal of 
the Southern district of Ill.., comprising seventy-two Counties. 

In this capacity, he took the ninth census, which arduous task 
he performed with accuracy and dispatch. 

Pres. Grant who personally knew Mr. Iloutt’s ability, appointed 
him, in 1871, Second Asst. Post Master General, the most labor¬ 
ious office, and requiring the greatest executive ability in that de¬ 
partment. 

In February 1875, Mr. Iloutt was appointed Gov. of Colorado. 

He, at once, used his best efforts to assist in the admission of 
the territory into the Union, and when Colorado was admitted, he 
was elected the first State Governor. 

In 1878, when his term came to a close, Mr. Poutt, having large 
private affairs, positively declined a re-nomination, but in 1883, he 
was elected Mayor of Denver, in which capacity he served two 
years. Gov. Poutt, since then, has served on the Board of Capit¬ 
ol Commissioners, and last fall, was, almost unanimously, again 
nominated to the office of Governor, which he now fills with great 
credit to himself and honor to the State. 

Mr. Poutt is a man of culture and refinement, affable and kind, 
thoroughly familiar with public affairs and possessed of the con¬ 
fidence of his political adversaries as well as of his own party/ 

Mr. Poutt makes a model executive officer and follows the 
dictates of duty, as his long experience and clear insight into the 
public affairs, show it to him, without fear or favor. 


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GOV. F. W. PITKIN. 

Amongst the public men of Colorado who have made magni¬ 
ficent records, F. W. Pitkin’s memory stands pre-eminent. 

Mr. Pitkin’s administration was marked by ability and gave 
him a reputation for purity, such as few public men attain. 

Being a lineal descendant of the best Connecticut families, his 
modesty would not allow him to even mention his ancestry in 
public, but he was always conscious °f his duty to hand down his 
great name as bright as he had received it. 

Born in Manchester, Conn. Aug. 31st 1837, he received a good 
education, entering in ’54, the Wesleyan University of Middle- 
town where he graduated in 1858, when he went to the Albany 
law school, from which also he graduated in 1859. 

In 1860, he went to Milwaukee, Wis, and soon achieved success 
in the practice of the law, but his health broke down, and that 
dread disease, consumption set in. 

In 1873, he visited Europe, in hope of getting relief, but s0 
far from finding it, he was taken seriously sick and had to keep 
his bed, a long while. In 1874, he came to Colorado, where he 
regained his health, to a great extent, almost at once, and was en 
abled to resume the practice of his profession. 

In the fall of 1878, he was elected Governor, receiving a major¬ 
ity of over 3,000, out of a total vote of 30,000. 

Re-elected in 1880, he was ihe only incumbent, so far in the 
history of the commonwealth who succeeded himself in the gu¬ 
bernatorial chair. 

Death claimed him in December of 1886; he was mourned by 
the entire State. 






EX-GOV. J. B. GRANT. 


HON. J. B. GRANT. 

Ex—Governor of Colorado and President of the Omaha and 
Grant Smelting and Refining Company. 

Gov. Grant was born in Russell County Alabama and there 
received his first instruction, going immediately after the close of 
the war, to Europe to complete his education; at the celebrated 
Mining School of Freiburg, in Germany, he studied mineralogy 
metallurgy, and in 1877, after his return to America, opened an 
assay ofiice at Georgetown, Colo. 

The discovery of carbonates in Leadville, however, attracted 





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him to that great camp and with the assistance of his uncle, the 
renowned Judge James Grant of Davenport, Iowa, he founded 
the Grant Smelter which was a success from the very start. 

In 1883, the works at Leadville were destroyed by fire, and Mr, 
Grant,* with indomitable energy went to work at once with the for¬ 
mation of a company which constructed at Denver, the Omaha and 
Grant Smelting works which together with the Omaha Hefinery* 
are the largest concern of the kind, under one ownership in the 
world. 

In 1882, Mr. Grant was elected Governor of Colorado, he being 
the first Democratic Governor of the State, His administration 
gave such general satisfaction that people of all parties would have 
liked a continuance, but Mr. Grant premptorily declined a re- 
nomination, his smelting interests requiring his undivided atten¬ 
tion Mr. Grant is universally popular; in all his private dealings 
as well as in his public life, he makes friends everywhere. From a 
small beginning, he has, by his own application, study, nerve and 
energy, built up one of the largest concerns, known to the world of 
work and commerce. 

He never has sought an office, when he was elected Governor, 

the honor was thrust upon him, much against his own inclin- 
tion, but not a year passes by that his fellow-citizens do not solicit 
him to accept some position. Indeed, were he to say the word, it i& 
generally believed that although a Democrat, he could be sent to 
theU. S. Senate. He would fill that place with honor to himself 
and profit and credit to the State, as he has done when Governor. 





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EX-GOV. BEX EATOX. 

Of all the men whom Colorado has brought into public life, 
not one enjoys the public respect and friendship of every class of 
people to a higher degree than the subject of this sketch. 

Being one of the first pioneers of the state, he has helped from the 
beginning, to lay the foundations of Colorado’s present greatness. 
Largely engaged in farming and mining, he put his shoulder to the 
wheel, as only a man of firm determination and of strong faith in the 
results before him, can do; many a day, has the Governor hammered 
the drill, or done all kinds of farm work, sharing the heat and burden 
of the day with his workmen. In 84, when a Democrat occupied 
the gubernatorial chair, the party leaders in the Republican convent¬ 
ion recognized the necessity of nominating the strongest possible 
candidate, and Mr. Eaton was made the standard bearer, being elect¬ 
ed Governor by a large majority, which office he filled with great 
credit to himself and to the best interests of the State. 

When his term came fo a close, the politicians wanted to make 
some peculiar terms with him, in consideration of their support 
for a re-nomination;Mr. Eaton, however, was too true a man to ent¬ 
er into such a bargain, and sacrificing his own personal ambition, to 
a sense of duty, he gave proof of his manhood and declined. 

The wisdom of his course became apparent when the returns 
rolled in. The politicians were beaten at the polls, and a De¬ 
mocratic Governor elected. 

Mr. Eaton has filled many other places of trust and honor. 

Since vacating the gubernatorial chair, he has returned to the 
farm, and is now putting in a large crop on 10,000 acres in 
Weld County, having, for several weeks, camped out in doing 
his work. 

His family life is one which should be imitated by all. 

It would be hard to find a more refined, happy and contented 
family circle than his. 

Being in vigorous manhood, full of energy and work, Mr Eaton 
has many years of usefulness still before him. 


EX-GOV. ALVA ADAMS. 

Mr. Adams is one of the enterprising men who develop 
the great resources of a state and extend the commercial rela¬ 
tions of cities, while they take part in public affairs as all men of 
parts and business capacity should do. 

When the stare was first admitted into the Union, he was a 
member of the state Senate. The legislature had to enact an en¬ 
tire code of laws under the change from a territorial to a state 
constitution and was in session one-hundred and forty days. A 
great deal of hard work had to be done and Mr. Adams was one 
of the most prominent men in the upper house gaining for him¬ 
self the honorable surname of “watch dog of the treasury”, as he 
critically scanned every bill which affected the public purse, mak¬ 
ing many suggestions and changes which have been of great 
value to the people of the state. Few men are possessed of such 
a wide business experience and of so practical a mind as Mr. 
Adams. He established a large hardware business at Pueblo with 
several branch houses, all over the state, all of which prospered 
and did extensive business. 

in 84, Mr. Adams was nominated for Governor on the Demo¬ 
cratic ticket, but although he ran several thousand ahead of his 
ticket, he was defeated by Mr. Eaton. 

Mr. Adams, however, was so popular with his party that he 
was again nominated in 86, and in that year, he was elected Gov¬ 
ernor by a very handsome majority, he being the only Democrat 
who was successful. 

All parties are agreed that Mr. Adams made as good a Gov- 


crnor as the state lias ever had; his administration was clean, dig¬ 
nified and business like, When the ITtes were disposed to make 
trouble for the settlers in the Western part of the state, he promp¬ 
tly ordered out the militia and suppressed the outbreak before 
there was an opportunity for any depredations. The regular army 
officers were rather indignant with the state interference and crit- 
icized his action, but the people approved of it, and in that portion 
of the state, the White Biver Country, he is justly very popular. 

Business relations prevented Mr. Adams from accepting a re¬ 
nomination, and when his term expired, he retired to private life• 

There is not a more useful man in all the state, he is still in the 
prime of life, and ere long he will again be requested to enter 
public life, as his honorable record, his experience and his great 
executive ability command the admiration of all. 



GOV. JOB A. COOPER. 

President National Bank Of Commerce. 

Our state has been peculiarly fortunate in the selection of the 
chief executives. Not a mistake has, so far, been made and the 
chair has always been filled by first class business men of purest 
honor and strictest integrity. 








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Pres. Cooper of the National Bank of Commerce is such a man. 
Born in Ill., the son of a farmer, he received a good education, he 
was diligently pursuing his studies at Knox college, Galesburg, 
Ill., when in ’64 a call came for more troops. The young student 
interrupted his course and became second sergeant in the 136th 
Illinois Infantry. 

During his military career, he behaved on more than one occas- 
sion, in so brave and meritorious a manner as to receive commen¬ 
dation from his superior officers. 

Being mustered out in ’65, he returned to college, graduated 
and commenced the study of law. In ’67 he was admitted to the 
bar, and the following year, elected clerk of the circuit court of 
Bond Co., Ill., in which office he acquired a large experience dur¬ 
ing the four years of his service. 

But he wanted a wider field of action, and in ’72 he came to 
Denver, then a small town. The young man being possessed of 
the finest power of observation, here saw the nucleus of the future 
great metropolis and after four years of law practice, entered the 
banking business as cashier of the German National Bank. This 
positon he occupied for twelve years, and that institution, one of 
the strongest in the West, is largely indebted to him for its great 
prosperity. In ’89, he was elected Governor of Colorado, receiv¬ 
ing the largest majority ever cast for that office. 

Ilis administration was such as could be expected from a first 
class business man of the highest character, it was clean and pract¬ 
ical, giving universal satisfaction. 

Having made arrangements to go into the National Bank of 
Commerce, he declined a re-nomination and became the Presi¬ 
dent of the new bank which enters upon a career of great useful¬ 
ness, equipped as it is with every element of success and officered 
by men whose names area tower of strength in the financial world. 


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THE MANSIONS AT MANITOU COLORADO. 







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THE COLORADO NATIONAL BANK OF DENVER 
U. S. DEPOSITORY. ' 

Makes the following very creditable showing. 


ASSETS: 

Loans and Discounts.$2,125,539 23 

U, S. Bonds to secure Circulation 

par value. 130,000 00 

Bank Building and other Real Estate 68,511 71 

Cash Resourses— 

U. S. Bonds.$ 320,000 00 

Other Bonds and Securities.19,615 07 

Due from Banks and U. S. Treas.. .378,111 23 
Gash.515,500 71 

$3,587,611 ol 


LIABILITIES. 

Capital Stock .$ 500,000 00 

Surplus and Undivided Profits 151,391 80 

Circulation . 117,000 00 

Deposits. 2,819,216 21 


$3,587,611 01 


OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS: 

Chas B. kountze, Pres. Dennis Sheedy, V. Pres. G. B. Berger, Cas. J. C. Heinz, A.Cas. 
Herman Kountze; T. H. Woodelton F. F. Struby. 

SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO COLLECTIONS. 













































































































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THE LATE SENATOR JEROME B. CHAFFEE. 

Next to Senator Tabor, probably no man has done more for 
Colorado than the subject of this sketch. 

Born in Niagara Co., N. Y., April 17th 1825, he received an aca¬ 
demic education and early in life, went West, going first to Michi¬ 
gan and then to St. Joseph, Mo. where he engaged in banking 
and also organized the Elmwood Town Co. of Kansas. In 60, he 
came to Colorado, first settling in Gilpin Co., where he and Eben 
Smith built the first stamp mill, known as the Smith Chaffee Mill 

Becoming extensively and successfully engaged in mining, he or¬ 
ganized in 69, the Bob Tail Mining Co., one of the most famous in 
the history of the State. In 65, he bought out the business of 
Clark & Co., Bankers, and organized the First National Bank of 
Denver, one of the staunchest institutions. 

In 61, Mr. Chaffee was elected to the terrrtorial legislature and 
in 63 he was Speaker of the House. In 65, he was chosen U.S.Sen- 
ator, but did not take his seat,because the State was not admitted. 

In 70 he was elected delegate to Congress, where he labored in- 
defatigably for the interests of the Territory of Colorado and for 
admission into the Union. Although only a delegate he secured 
many important measures, amongst others the treaty with the 
Utes, ceding the San Juan which at once became famous as a min¬ 
ing region and will soon be much more so as a garden spot. 

In 76, Mr.Chaffee did become U. S. Senator from the new State, 
and served until 79, when he positively declined a re-election. 

Mr, Chaffee became an intimate friend of General Grant, and 
spent most of his last years in New York City, where he died, 
shortly after the General. 

He had accumulated a princely fortune, all made legitimately 
out of mining. He always worked for the State of Colorado,, 
spending his time, his energies, influence and his money, like 
water, where the interests of the State were concerned. 

His name is immortal. 


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HON. HENRY M* TELLER, 

IT. S. SENATOR EROM COLORADO. 

Mr. Teller was born in Allegany Co., N. Y. on May 23rd 
1830 and received an academic education through his own 
efforts. In the spring of 1856, he entered the law office of 
Judge Martin Grover at Angelica, N. Y., and was admitted 
to the bar in 1858. 

He located in Whiteside Co., Ill. hut in 1861 followed the 
Pike’s excitement and located at Central in Gilpin Co. In 
1863, Gov. John Evans appointed him Major General of Mil¬ 
itia which position he resigned two years later. 

In 1865, Genl. Teller organized the Colorado Central Rail 
Road Company, of which he wrote the Charter and whose 
President he was the first live years. 

In 1876 Mr. Teller and Jerome B. Chaffee were elected 
the first two IT. S. Senators from Colorado. Drawing a short 
term, he was immediately elected to another full term of six 
years, but resigned in 1881, to take the place of Secretary of the 
Interior in President Authur’s Cabinet. 

When the administration came to a close in 1885, he was again 
elected to the IT. S. Senate, and there distinguished himself as a 
Champion of silver and Western interests, so that during the last 
campaign in this State, he was the unanimous choice of his party, 
and the Legislature re-elected him in January 1891. 

Senator Teller is an active Free Mason, having attained the 
33rd Degree of Scottish Rite Masonry. He has been Grand 
Master of Masons of Colorado for seven years, and also was the 
first Grand Commander of Knights Templar. 

No state is represented in the national council by a more useful 
man than Mr. Teller, he is ever vigilant where the interest of his 
constituents are concerned and wields a national influence which 
makes his voice heard, everywhere. 



TAX SCHEDULE OF COLORADO. 


Colorado, us a territorial organization, dates from t86i, just twenty years ago. 
Of course, the beginning was out of nothing. It would be useless to give the 
sums of each year, a comparison of the last few years will answer the purpose 
of showing the rapid increase of taxable wealth. 

It is as follows: 


1886 .$ 124,269,701 00 

1887 .141,323,684 37 

1888 .168,812,246 93 

1889 .193,254,127 38 

1890 .220,544,064 62 


1891, may safely be estimated at two hundred and sixty millions, so that 

Colorado now shows more than double the wealth of five years ago. 

The Tax Schedule foriSgo showed the following items; 


Valuation. 


5,683,654 94 acres of agricultural laud.$ 25,767,034 06 

5, 838,752.54 acres of grazing land... 11,588,266 74 

134,185.16 acres of coal land. 1,250,285,90 

Improvements on land. 7,209,292, 40 

Improvements on public lands. 1,406,673 00 

Town and city lots. 73,209,220 00 

Improvements on town and city lots. 29,744,691 60 

Mining property and gross output. 5,727,657 00 

4.044.90 miles of railroads and other property, as returned by the State Board of 

Equalization. 31,185,796 27 

Miles of telegraph and telephone lines, as returned by the State Board of 


Equalization. 226,155 15 

Average value of merchandise. 7,734,823 00 

Amount of capital employed in manufactures. 1,273,223 Oo 

189,724 horses. 5,550,410 50 

9,419 mules. 409,853 00 

2,062 asses. :. 20,131 00 

769,823 cattle. 7,053,370 7o 

657,546 sheep. 758,584 00 

29,239 swine. 73,859 00 

5,503 goats. 5,477 00 

6,809 all other animals. 35,642 00 

7,784 musical instruments. 447,677 00 

14,004 clocks and watches. 208,020 00 

Diamonds and jewelry, gold and silver plate —. 65,787 00 

Amonut of money and credits. 2,530,320 00 

38.663 carriages and vehicles of every description. 1,128,556 00 

Ho usehold property. 717.010 00 

All other property...* 2,542.483 50 

Bank stock or shares in bank, or shares in a corporation or company. 2,598,807 02 

Grand total valuation of State. .$ 220 , 544,064 62 





































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DENVER MINT REPORT. 

Value of deposits at the mint of the United States at Denver, Colo., during 
the calendar year ending December 31, 1890. 


State 

Gold 

Silver 


Totals 

Colorado.... 

$ 1,041,852.65 

$ 14,203.22 

$ 

1,056,055.89 

New Mexico. . 

84,967.25 

930.45 


85,897.70 

Wyoming. . . . 

12,080.07 

115.68 


12 , 195-75 

Arizona. 

4, 1 50.07 

72.07 


4 , 223-34 

Oregon. 

8,911,20 

92.82 


9,205.02 

Utah. 

310.30 

2.44 


312.74 

Montana. 

949-30 

5-53 


954-83 

Mexico. 

8,528.65 

478.42 


9,007.07 

Totals. 

. .$ 1,165,683.35 

$ 15 , 934-44 

$ 

1,181,614.79 


COLORADO’S OUTPUT FROM iS 7 i TO i 89 o. 


1871 .3,059,046 

1872 .3,790,000 

1 873 . 4,028,000 

1874 . 5 , 262,383 

1875 . 5 , 434,387 

1876 . 6,191,907 

1 877 .7,216,283 

1878 . 10,558,116 

1 879 . 19,110,862 

1880 . •••' . 23,500,000 

1881 . 23,500,000 

7882. 22,544,150 

1883 . 21,470,000 

1884 . 20,300,000 

1885 . 24 , 290 , 35 ! 

1886 . 22,655,823 

1887 . 25,390,500 

1SS8. ••••.•••• 23,197,16° 

1889 ‘'. 29,914,000 

1890 . •••• . 29,880,734 





































HON. N. P. HILL, 


Ex U. S. Senator From Colorado. 

Nathaniel P. Hill was born in 1832, in Orange Co., N. Y\, 
the son of a well-to-do farmer who was a prominent and popular 
man in his community, having served in the legislature and as 
County Judge. 

When the boy was ten years old, his father died, and thus he 
was, at the age of sixteen, compelled to take charge of a large est¬ 
ate, which he successfully administered for five years, finding time 
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to fit himself for college. 

At the age of twenty-one, he entered Brown University, at Pro¬ 
vidence, R. I., and especially applying himself to the study of 
Chemistry, he became, in 1856, tutor, and in 60, Professor of 
that science in his alma mater. 

In 1864, a number of wealthy men sent him to Colorado to in¬ 
spect the Beaubien Land Grant, and while the Professor was in 
the territory, he took occasion to visit the mines. 

Here he saw that the methods for extracting the precious metals 
from the ores, then in vogue, were too primitive and too wasteful. 
He at once recognized the great possibilities of the moun¬ 
tain regions and applied himself diligently to the study of smelt¬ 
ing ores. Going to Swansea and other smelting centers of Europe, 
he learned the best methods, and in 1867, organized the Boston & 
Colorado Smelting Company, erecting the first plant at Black 
Hawk. 

The establishment of this furnace gave a new impetus to min¬ 
ing, for the first time m the history of the mountain region, had 
the miner a ready market for his ores. The works were, from 
time to time, enlarged, until in 1878, they were moved to Denver. 

Of these works, a description will be found in another place. 

In 1879, Prof. Hill was elected to the U. S. Senate, where he 
distinguished himself as an eloquent and able champion of silver, 
just at the most critical period, when that question was not yet 
understood, as it is now. 

In August 1885, Senator Hill became the largest stock-holder 
in the Republican Publishing Company which he still retains. 

Last year, Pres. Harrison appointed the Ex Senator a member 
of the International Coinage Commission, a position for which no 
man in the United States is better qualified. 

We may expect great and beneficent results from his labors on 
this Commission. 

Senator Hill has demonstrated, what close application and hard 
work can do in overcoming obstacles and making the most out of 
the great opportunities which are offered in this great State. 


EX SENATOR H. A. W. TABOR 

No man lias ever done more for a great state or a metropolis 
than Mr. Tabor whose picture will be found on page 16, has clone 
for Colorado and Denver. 

Born in Vt., in Novbr. 1830, he spent his youth on a farm, and 
as early as 55, came to Kansas, where times were then very 
troublesome. 

Mr. Tabor at once became a leader of men and in 57 served with 
distinction in the Kansas legislature. 

But he wanted a wider field of action, and in 59, came to Col¬ 
orado, remaining in Denver over winter and settling, early in 60, 
in California Gulch, where he devoted himself to mining and was 
so successful that in 65, he embarked in the merchandising busi¬ 
ness. 

While thus engaged, he was always the prospector's and miner's 
friend and has helped a number of men to struggle on until they 
finally achieved success. 

Thus it happened, as a consequence of his judicious perseverance 
and pluck that in 78, he grubstaked Aug. Riche and Geo. E. 
Hook who found the Little Pittsburg mine. 

The output was at once so marvelous as to attract general atten¬ 
tion, and the greatest mining boom, the world has ever known, re¬ 
sulted in the permanent establishment of the city of Leadville and 
the greatest mining camp, known to man. 

Having sold the Little Pittsburg for a million dollars, Mr Tabor 
bought the “Matchless” mine and half the stock jf the First Na¬ 
tional Bank of Denver; also erected the Tabor Block and Tabor 





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Grand Opera House in Denver as well as an opera house in 
Leadville. 

In politics he is a staunch .Republican and has been honored by 
his party, being chosen Lieut. Governor and L T . S. Senator as well 
as chairman of the central committee and often being called upon 
to preside at conventions. 

Mr. Labor has, by judicious investments and by mining, in¬ 
creased his fortune, until now he is many times a millionaire; be 
is kind and affable to all, doing good to his fellow men as well by 
deeds of mercy as in the more important way of opening up new 
industries which give employment to large numbers. 

THE TABOR INVESTMENT COMPANY. 

The officers of the company are Hon. H. A. W. Tabor, Pres; 
Peter McCourt, Vice Pres, and Treas; T. L. Wiswall, Sec; L. Sea¬ 
man, Supt., 

They have established agencies in London, Paris, Amsterdam, 
Yew York and other centers of capital. 

Reliable experts only are employed, and it is truly said that no 
mistake has been made. The company control mines in every 
mining state of the Union and have placed several large properties 
with foreign capitalists. They placed the celebrated “NiWot” 
group for one million, and the mill. 

This company also owns the “Poorman” mine in Boulder 
county which paid already $5,000 a month as dividends, when 
only ten men were employed 5 they also own 610 acres of rich pla¬ 
cer ground in San Miguel county. 

It is needless to say that with the experience and reputation of 
the men at the helm, only gilt-edged properties are handled, and 
that a recommendation from them is a safe guarantee, as they 
will consider no doubtful properties even, and where the expert 
makes an indifferent report, at once drop all negotiations. 

The company is doing a great work for the mining country 
and capitalists who want to make profits. 

Address all communications to T. L. Wiswall, Secretary, Tabor 
Grand Opera House Block, Denver, Colo. 




HON. ED O. WOLCOTT 

IT. S. Senator from Colorado. 


This brillant orator was born at Long Meadow Mass., on March 
27th, 1847, being the son of the Hey. Sam Wolcott. 

lie absolved Yale College and the Harvard Law School, acquir¬ 
ing a thorough and polished education, preparatory to his life’s 
work. 

In 1861, when only twenty-three years old, he came to Colo¬ 
rado and settled at Georgetown, where he commenced the practice 
of law. 


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His great ability was soon recognized by all who came in con¬ 
tact with him, and in 1877, he was elected Prosecuting Attorney 
for his district, a position which he filled in such a manner as to 
gain a State reputation. 

In 1878 he was elected to the State Senate from Clear Creek 
County, and since then he has been one of the central figures in 
Colorado’s history. 

The Denver & Bio Grande Pail Poad Company, a corporation 
which has done more for Colorado than any other Company has 
ever done for any other State, appointed Mr. Wolcott Solicitor 
General of the Company, a place which is by all means the most re¬ 
sponsible position in the State., as the office has to look after the 
largest interests and which concern every section in the common¬ 
wealth. 

By his personal urbanity, his kind heart his great reputation 
for ability as a lawyer and his brilliancy as an orator, Mr. Wolcott 
became so popular that when Mr. Bowen’s term as U. S. Senator 
expired in 89, only one name was on the lips of all the people 
and Mr. Wolcott was chosen to the U. S. Senate by a practically 
unanimous vote. 

His influence over the affairs of the State is second to that of no 
man, while in the IT. S. Senate, he has, almost from the start, be¬ 
come one of the leading members, being a special champion of 
silver and western interests. When it is announced that he will 
speak, the galleries are crowded and the whole assemblage listens 
with so close an attention that you can hear a pin drop. 

Mr. Wolcott is the youngest II. S. Senator, and it is certain 
that his career in that august body will be one of long usefulness 
and great celebrity, as he combines in himself the logic and 
deep learning of Webster’s legal mind with all the elaquence of 
that great Statesman and the impetuosity of Calhoun. 

It has been said that the TJ. S. Senate does not now compare 
as regards ability, with former generations, but Mr. Wolcott will 
be one of the great men who will rise as high as any othes name 
yet known to the history of that body. 


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HON. DENNIS SHEEDY, 

President Globe Smelting & Refining Company. 


There is no man in Denver who takes a more lively interest in 
the development of the City and State than Mr. Dennis Slieedy, 
and none who is more active in promoting every material interest. 

Endowed with vigorous energy and a clear perception, having 
acquired large experience and the most correct business methods, 
being in the prime of life, backed by ample means, wielding a 
large influence, Mr. Sheedy is a power in the up-building of the 
State, whose importance cannot well be over-estimated. 

He came to Denver in 63 when it was only a little village and 


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there were hardly twelve hundred people; now there are a hundred 
and twenty-five thousand population and an assessed valuation of 
over 1100,000,000. On March 4th, this year in a speech before 
the Senate Committee on Kail Roads, Mr. Sheedy expressed his 
firm conviction that this growth in that short period of time can 
be more than doubled in our life time. 

Those who know the man, know also that he will do more than 
his share towards the grand result. 

After a short residence in Denver, Mr. Sheedy went to Montana 
where he engaged in merchandising and mining, forming exten¬ 
sive business relations. Then he engaged largely in the cattle 
trade, establishing ranches in Nevada, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kan¬ 
sas and the Indian Territory, which he used as centers where he 
kept large herds, moving them as seasons or markets required. 

Rut Denver was his first love as a place of residence, and in 85,. 
he disposed of his cattle business and came to the Queen City. 

He was elected a Director, and in 1886, Vice President of the 
Colorado National Bank, the oldest in the City, and has ever since 
taken an active part in the management of that institution. 

But being always active, he could not restrict his sphere of use¬ 
fulness, and when in 1888, the Globe Smelting and Refining 
Company was organized, he accepted the office of President, and a 
little later, also that of General Manager. 

As will be seen, under the head of smelting, this concern is one 
of the most important producers of wealth in the U. S. 

Mr. Sheedy is not only active, but is a student of national econ¬ 
omy, grasping questions of public welfare with a firm determina¬ 
tion, as fast as they arise: When last session of Congress, the Nat¬ 
ional Lead Trust wanted to place Mexican lead on the free list, that 
proposition was indeed defeated by a vote of 133 to 110, 
but the struggle had only begun, as an effort was immediately 
made to reduce the duty from 14 cts to -Jet per pound. 

Mr. McKinley, although the apostle of high tariff in all other 
matters, seems to have favored this reduction. He went over 
Sunday, to New York, and the free lead lobby followed him. Mr. 


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Sheedy was there also, and watched them closely. When he dis¬ 
covered that the free ore men had seen Mr. McKinley and felt 
■jubilant, he at once took the train for Washington, and laid the 
matter before Mr. Lafollet of Wisconsin, a member of the Ways 
and Means Committee and Hon. Hosea Townsend of Colorado. 
Mr. Lafollet, immediately and during the night, visited the mem¬ 
bers of his Committee and got their signatures to a remonstrance 
against any reduction. 

Armed with this paper he, early next morning surprised Mr. 
McKinley, the committee reported in favor of the l^cts duty and 
thus by the effort of Mr. Townsend, the good faith of Mr.Lafollet 
and Mr. Sheedy’s watchfulness, our lead interests were saved. 

Mr. Sheedy remained in Washington six weeks, sacrificing liis 
time and efforts, to see the bill safely through the Senate in which 
he was greatly assisted by the Hon H. M. Teller’s earnest labors 
and great influence. 

Had the National Lead Trust triumphed, it would have been a 
serious blow to our Colorado mining interests, as it would have 
driven our ores to the Smelters at the Missouri River, and thus 
imposed the great additional tax of carriage upon our ore pro¬ 
ducers. 

Thus Mr. Sheedy has, by his persistence and tact, added 
greatly to the value of every mine which produces smelting ores,, 
and thus he will always, with assiduous care watch every public 
affair of our State. 

Mr. Sheedy is also a Director and the Treasurer of the Colorado 
Mining Stock Exchange, which is now erecting a large block, 
costing nearly $400,000, of which we speak under the proper 
head. 

Large as are the affairs under his care he pays strict attention 
to every detail, and is kind and affable to all. 

Political offices Mr. Sheedy has never sought and does not wish, 
he only accepts places of honor and trust in commercial and in¬ 
dustrial organizations which increase the wealth of City, State and 
Nation. 


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THE GLOBE SMELTING AND REFINING COMPANY 

OF DENVER, COLO. 

The works of this Company can be reached easily by taking the Larimer 
Street Cable Car and then crossing the Thirty Sixth Street bridge. After leav¬ 
ing the car, it is a pleasant walk or drive of about a mile, through the Eastern 
portion and suburbs of the city. 

Upon a slight elevation, about half-way, between the Argo works and the 
Grant Smelter ,the Globe occupies the grounds, formerly belonging to the Hol¬ 
den Smelting Company, a spacious plat of one hundred and ten acres, most ad¬ 
mirably located for every purpose of a large Smelting plant, most accessible to 
the incoming of ores and splendidly calculated to dispose of the large quantities 
of slag. 

The w r orks are a little city in themselves. Without a guide, the visitor will be 
almost bewildered, so many buildings are on every side and so great is the ac¬ 
tivity. 

There are fourteen roasting furnaces w r hich prepare the sulphide and other re¬ 
fractory ores which, without such a process, would not yield their precious con¬ 
tents. There are eleven blast furnaces which produce the metal in the shape of 
bullion, separated from the waste of the rocks, which is carried off in the shape of 
slag. The capacity of the Smelter is five hundred tons of ore per day and will be 
enlarged, from time to time, as the business will require. 

The ores come from Colorado, Utah, Idaho Montana, Nevada and even from 
Mexico and Canada. 

In 1888 , the output w r as as follows: 

3> I 97)5 2 3 oz. silver.value $3,037,946.85 

1,396,874,100 oz gold.value 279,36780 

23,373,167 lbs. lead.value 1,051,792.52 

210,797 ” copper.value 35,835,49 

Total.$ 4,401,941.66 

THE OUTPUT FOR 1S90, WAS: 

2,085,039 i ounces silver, at$i.2929 coinage value.$ 3,988,g4S 05 

i9>°53 59 ounces of gold at $2067. 393,§37 70 

21,694,223 pounds of lead, at $4.35. 943,69870 

172,097 pounds of copper, at 15 cents. 26,814 55 


Total 


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The monthly pay roll amounts to over $45,000, and four hundred men are 
steadily employed in the handling of these vast amounts of ores and metals. 

The Globe is the youngest of our metal producing factories and as such, 
makes a splendid showing. 

Consignments of ores are solicited with the assurance that the quickest pos¬ 
sible returns are always made, and at the lowest rate of charges. 

The processes for reducing refractory ores, already mentioned, are the most 
perfect, known, so that ores will yield the largest possible returns. 

The owners of these works are ever vigilant for the interests of their clients, 
as was the case when the National Lead Trust desired to ruin our mining inter¬ 
ests by placing lead on the free list, as related elsehwere. 

The officers of the company are: 

President, Hon. Dennis Sheedy, who is also general manager and the genial 
vice president of the Colorado National Bank. 

Secretary and Treasurer, J. M. Walker, Vice Pres., A. Chanute, Superintend¬ 
ent, M. W. lies, Metallurgist, Mr. James. 

When we remember that these works have been in operation only about four 
years and already handle oyer five millions of dollars per annum, we may well 

expect that ere long the business will annua'ly amount to oyer ten millions, as 
the company is composed of progressive men who constantly enlarge their 
sphere of activity and usefulness. 



THE OMAHA SMELTING AND REFINING COMPANY. 

This company was first organized by Ex- Gov. J. B. Grant and in 1879- erect¬ 
ed works at Leadville which were successful from the start and did much 
towards giving that splendid mining campits great impetus which resulted in 
such steady and magnificent outponring of precious metals. 

In 1883, however, these works were destroyed by fire and as an opportunity 
offered for consolidation at Denver with the Omaha Refining Works, a com¬ 
pany was organized with the following officers; Pres. Hon. J. B. Grant; V ice-Pres. 
Edward Eddy; Supt., N. H James, and the works were built on fifty acres of 
land, situated on the Platte River, North of the city. The company’s capital 
is three million dollars, over five hundred men are employed at these Denver 
works alone and the pay roll is more than thirty thousand dollars per month. 
Af Omaha, where the works have been established over twenty-six years, the 

force employed is still larger. 

THE OUTPUT FOR 1890, WAS: 


Gold 76,334.23 ounces, valued at $26.67 per ounce. $ 1 577 t^ 2 ^ 53 

Silver, 6,769,580 ounces, valued at $1,042 per ounce. 7 >° 53 >°° 2 36 

Lead, 33,705 061 pounds, valued at $4.35 per cwt. 1 , 683,670 15 

.Copper, 886,242pounds, valued at 15 cents. 182,93630 


Total value of output. $ 10,448,337 34 


"Every process, known to science and practice is employed to prepare the ores 
in a proper manner, so as to make them yield as large a percentage of their pre¬ 
cious contents as possible, 

Indeed, in this particular, our Denver smelters stand at the head of all, known 
to the world, as our smelter men have visited Europe, learned the most pro¬ 
found secrets of the metallurgists there, and then supplanted the knowledge, 
thus gained, by the inventive genius which is peculiar to our American people 
and in practical appliances, surpasses that of all other nations. 

There is probably not an industry in the country or in the world, so impor¬ 
tant as the Denver smelting industry which furnishes the circulating medium for 
vthe traffic of a world. 








THE BOSTON & COLORADO SMEL 1 ING COMPANY. 


When Prof. N. P. Hill in 1864, came to Colorado to inspect the Beaubien land 
grant, he paid a visit to the mines in Gilpin County, and being a fine chemist 
and a man of practical mind, he saw at a glance, that the processes then em¬ 
ployed for extracting the precious metals out of the ores, were not only very 
rude but so wasteful that the larger part of the ore contents was lost. 

He at once formed a plan and visited Europe for the purpose of learning the 
best methods, known to the metallurgists there. He even took a lot of Colora¬ 
do ores over and had them treated. 

The result was that in 1867, he organized the Boston & Colorado Smelting 
Company with a capital of $275,000 and erected the first works at Black Hawk. 

As occasion required, these works were enlarged; for the first four years, the 
output was annually doubled and in 1872 already reached the million mark. 

In 1879, the plant was moved to Argo, a suburb of Denver, where they occupy 
a finesite and enjoy every facility for the handling of large amounts of ores. 

The Argo works treat gold, silver and copper ores in reverberatory furnaces, 
and employ the Ziervogel process for the handling of the matte. 

The number of men emptoyed is quite large and the monthly pay roll runs 
up, way above $30,000 

THE OUTPUT THIS YEAR WAS: 


Gold.$ 731,116.50 

Silver. 3,757,261.96, 

Copper. 731,261.96, 

Total. S 5,031,018,46 


There are very few institutions anywhere in the world, where such enormous 
values are handled as here, and if our readers take but a moment’s thought to 
study these figures, they will become fully impressed with the great importance 
of Denver’s smelting industry. 







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THE DENVER POST OEFICE. 


The Denver Post Office now has a small army of employees and transacts a 
larger business than do offices in many cities of 200.000 inhabitants, as is here 
shown: 




1889. 

1890; 

Increase. 


Sale of stamps and stamped envelopes. 

Newspaper and periodical postage. 

Rox rents. 

$217,95 830 
12,496 40 
6,517 10 

$ 256,084 30 
16,216 77 
10,419 70 

$ 38,126 25 
3,720 17 
3,902 60 

Total revenue in postal account. 

Increase of receipts over 1888. 

$236,971 55 

$282,720 57 

$ 45,749 02 
73,00000 
1,043 25 

Received on deposit from post-masters. 

Total. 

40,210 57 

41,253 70 


$323,974 27 






Paid office clerks...$ 39,913 47 

Paid letter carriers.42,6(54 38 

Paid railway postal clerks.35,996 76 

Paid postmaster’s salary. 3.6000 00 

Miscellaneous.:.18,000 00 

Deposited with Assistant Treasurer of U. S. at New York. 183,799 66 

Total .323,974 27 


Thenumderof one-cent stamps sold in 1890 was 1,660,000; of two cent stamps, 7,270,000; of 
postal cards, 1,230,000. 

The business of the registry department for the year ending December 31, 1890: Received 
through registered pouches, 3,331; inner registered sacks, 1,956; registered packages in pouch 
es, 96, 892; registered packages recieved by hand, 66, 119; registered packages handled in tran¬ 
sit, 116,743; letters and parcels delivered, 65,744; letters and parcels mailed, 44,183; registered 
pouches sent in pouches, 102,415, inner registered sacks dispatched, 2,067. 

Summary of the money-order department for the year, Deposits received from post 
masters, $1,659,504; deposited in New York, $1,449,600. 



No 

Amount. 

Pees. 

Issued: 

Domestic orders. 

42,816 

$ 544,843 

$ 4,242 

Postal notes . 

23,232 

9,120 

47.671 

696 

Poreign . 

184,006 

2,226 

P^ id’ . 


52,464 

32,112 

594.301 



57,216 



1,200 

528 

31,572 


Domestic notes repaid. 

5,896 

























































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Col. 8. K. HOOPER, 

General Passenger Agent Denver & Rio Grande R. R. 

Few men have a more brilliant war record than Mr. Hooper. 

Being repeatedly promoted for “gallant and meritorious con¬ 
duct”, having participated in all the actions of his regiment, the 
23rd Ind. Inf., from Paducah to Fort Donelson, the great 
battle of Shiloh, the siege of Vicksburg and the Atlanta campaign, 
he attained the rank of Colonel and was assigned to duty as Quar¬ 
ter Master General of his Division. In this capacity he purchased 
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iirst showed that great executive ability for which he has since, 
become so widely known. 

During the war Mr. Hooper had sent much correspondence to 
Eastern papers which were so well received that when he returned 
home, he was offered a position of city editor on a daily in Hew 
Albany, Indiana, which however he declined, accepting a clerk¬ 
ship in the general ticket office of the Louisville & Hew Albany 
Rail Road. In 1867, he was for a few months, in the employ of 
the IT. P. R. R. but returned in December of the same year to the 
Louisville and Albany R. R., as chief clerk in the general ticket 
office, where his services were so well appreciated that in March 
following he was promoted to the office of General Ticket Agent. 

He remained in that position five years, and then accepted the 
office of G. T. A. on the Fort Wayne, Jackson & Saginaw R.R, 
where he remained six years, resigned in 1880 to go to the Han¬ 
nibal & St. Joe road as assistant general passenger and ticket 

agent, becoming the G. P. &T A. of the road, two yeais later. 

In this latter position Maj. Hooper remained two years and filled 
for a short time, the same office with the Central Iowa R. R. but 
June 1st 1884, brought him to Denver as the General Passenger 
Agent of the Denver & Rio Grande, the “Senic Line of the World” 

There is no official in like position any where who has served 
his road better than Mr. Hooper. His literary tastes, his sound 
judgment and ripe experience helped him to accomplish results 
which never could be expected. He has liberally, persistently 
but judiciously advertised the ‘-Great Scenic Route” and the en¬ 
tire State, un til the tourists travel over the road is something 
unprecedented. 

The entire State owes Mr. Hooper a debt of gratitude, more 
even than the road benefitted, for the gems of literature and art 
which he has sent broadcast, over the country. 

Other roads could profit largely by following his example. 

Mr. Hooper’s voice is always listened to in the council of rail¬ 
road men, and he always brings the Rio Grande out victorious, in 
nny complication that ever arises. 



Hon. JOHN EVANS. 


Born in O. ,in 1814, the subject of this sketch acquired an aca¬ 
demic education and in 38, graduated at Cincinnati as a Doctor of 
medicine, a profession which he practised for six years. 

Going to Chicago, Dr. Evans became chairman of the committee 
of Public Schools and did much to build up education in that city 
He was the founder of the North Western University, Evans ton 
111., named in his honor, which he endowed with $25,000. 

Dr. Evans was in the State convention of Ill. which first named 
Lincoln as President In 62, he was appointed Governor of Colo¬ 
rado, and when in 65, a state constitution was adopted, he was chos¬ 
en U. S. Senator, but the state was not admitted at that time. 

Since then Gov. Evans has been engaged in rail road building and 
has done much for Colorado and for Denver. He also has erected 
several stately buildings in Denver, chief of which is the Pail Poad 
building, the first eight story block ever erected in the City. 















JOS. H. SMITH, 

Clerk and Recorder of Arapahoe County, Colorado. 

Born June 20th 1844, at Mountain City, East Tennessee, 
Mr. Smith received a good education, graduating in ’61, from the 

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Taylorsville Academy, an institution which is known for the tho¬ 
rough culture and the high standing of its graduates. 

In 73, Mr. Smith came West, and locating in Denver, engaged 

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in business. Being of a genial nature, affable and kind to all, 
he soon became well and favorably known among a large circle 
of friends, and his popularity soon led to the mentioning of his 
name for positions of trust and honor. 




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But Mr. Smith did not feel inclined to launch out upon the sea 
of political tempests, and it was not until 87, that he accepted a 
nomination which was tendered him, well nigh unanimously, to 
the important office of Clerk and Recorder of Arapahoe County, 
the wealthiest, not only in the State, but in the entire West. 

Mr. Smith was elected by a large majority, and so well did he 
fill the important office, that he was re-nominated without a dis- 
senting voice and re-elected by the people, although some dis¬ 
gruntled politicians of his own party made a bitter and stubborn 
fight on him, which envy and malice alone had dictated. 

A man’s personal strength and popularity cannot well be tested 
in a more satisfactory manner. 

Mr. Smith is conceded, by all who have dealings with him, to 
be the best clerk and recorder, who ever served this county. 

He has hosts of friends who would like to see him advanced to 
a more exalted position, and while, like all good men, he also has 
many enemies, the impartial judgment of those who are in a good 
position to know, proclaim him all the worthier and more honor¬ 
able for the very enemies, he has made. 

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THE MOUNTAIN COLUMBINE. 

The State Flower, selected by Colorado’s school childien on 
Arbor daj', April 17th 1891. 

Sweet, stately Mountain Columbine, 

Thy fragrance, grace and beauty 
As patriotism’s emblems shine, 

And teach a sacred duty. 

Thy azure hue is like the skies 
Above our peaks and valleys, 

Our balmy air it typifies, 

A joyfull spirit rallies. 

Thy purest white reflects the snows 
Which cap our lofty mountains 
And in the sunny light, it shows 

Whence come our sparkling fbuntains. 

Thy golden center speaks of wealth, 

It paints our stores of metals 
Our golden grains, climatic health, 

All these inclose thy petals. 

Just when the glorious Fourth at hand v 
We see thy beauty blooming, 

Like angels’smiles o’er mountain land, 

Yet modest, unassuming. 

Thy majesty, our children’s voice 
Made Colorado’s flower, 

We all feel proud of this, their choice, 

Aesthetic beauty’s dower. 

“Resolved to win” the motto is, 

Thy emblem signifleth, 

When sunlight’s rays thy blossoms kiss, 

Our greatness prophesieth. 


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May 9th 1S91. 


F. W. Kroenke. 



HON. H. B. CHAMBERLIN. 

President of the Chamberlin Investment Co. 

Mr. Chamberlin’s biography should be written by a competent pen in all its 
details and would make a volume of reading matter, more entertaining than any 
novel and more instructive to the youth of our land than even a text book. 

Raised in New York he served in the military telegraph corps until the war 
ended. Then he engaged in the Drug business and in 1878 was elected general 
secretary of the Y. M. C. A of Brooklyn. Hard work caused his health to * 
fail and in 1880 he came to Den ver. Our glorious climate brought relief at once 
and seeing the great future of Denver, Mr Chamberlin engaged here in the real 
estate business. After several associations, he has organized the Chamberlin In¬ 
vestment Co. with a paid up capital of $ 1 , 000 , 000 . 

Mr. Chamberlin has been very generous to the public. He has given $40,000 
to the Trinity M. E- Church, $ 25,000 to the contemplated Y. M. C. A building 
and $ 50,000 to the Chamberlin Observatory, connected with the University of 
Denver. 

These facts alone prove the sterling character and the public spirit of the man. 

The Chamberlin Investment Co. is the most reliable that Eastern capitalists 
can find for service in the West. Thoroughly familiar with all public affairs, 
having served as President of the Chamber of Commerce, prominent in every 
public enterprise, Mr. Chamberlin and his Company can serve the investor better 
than probably any other agencv in the West. 














HON. ROGER WILLIAMS WOODBURY. 


President Union National Bank of Denver Colorado. 

This gentleman was born at Francestown, Hillsboro Co., N. II. 
on March 3rd, 1811. His father who was a farmer, in 1846, re¬ 
moved to Manchester, where the boy went to school and, at the 
age of eight years, had the misfortune to lose his mother. 










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At an early age, he learned the art of type-setting in the office 
of the Manchester “Mirror”, and also taught school at Deering, 
N. H. 

When the war of the Rebellion began, his patriotism prompted 
him to enlist which he did, as a private in the 3rd N. H. Infantry. 

He was with Gen’l. Sherman at the capture of Port Royal, S. C. 
in November 1861, and for some months was detached from the 
regiment as receiving and issuing clerk of commissary stores at 
the Hilton Head Depot, one of the most important in that very 
busy department. 

In 1862, at his own request, he returned to Company duty, and 
participated inlhe various movements of his company, the princi¬ 
pal of which were the capture of Morris Island, the charge on Fort 
Sumpter, the bombardment of Charleston, etc. He was early 
promoted to the grades of Second and First Lieutenant. He par¬ 
ticipated in a short campaign in Florida, and in the early part of 
1864 was transferred to Virginia to join Genl. Butler’s Army of 
the James, participating in the long list of bloody engagements 
around Petersburg, Fort Darling and north of the James, near 
Richmond, being wounded in the thigh at the explosion of the 
Petersburg mine. He was appointed Captain in 1863. 

He participated in Buxler’s expedition to capture Fort Fisher at 
the mouth of the Cape Fear River N. C., and at the organization 
of the second expedition under Gen. Alfred H. Terry was appoint¬ 
ed by that officer as the Chief Ordnance Officer of the expedition. 
He remained in that capacity, on Gen. Terry’s staff until the close 
of the war. 

In August, 1865, Capt. Woodbury was mustered out, after 
taking part in fifty battles, and on returning to New Hampshire, 
became local reporter of the paper on which he had first worked. 

In 1866, he emigrated to Colorado, settling first in Summit 
County, where he engaged in mining. That winter he worked at 
his trade on the Golden Transcript, which had just been started, 
but soon came to Denver as an attache of the Daily Tribune, of 
which he became one of the proprietors. He remained such until 


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1872, when lie sold, and the same year founded the Denver Even¬ 
ing Times which soon exercised great influence and commanded 
large patronage. The fine block on Lawrence Street which is still 
the home of the “Times”, was erected by Mr. Woodbury. 

The name “Centennial State” was given to Colorado by Mr. 
Woodbury in his issue of the “Times” of February 27th 1875, long- 
before any previous suggestion. This was prior to admission 
and also to the Centennial. 

In 1882, Mr. Woodbury sold the “Times” to the Times Com¬ 
pany. 

Mr. Woodbury has always been a strictly business man and 
never a seeker of offices. Those positions of trust which he has ac¬ 
cepted have been usually forced upon him by his friends and fel¬ 
low citizens who recognized his superior business abilities. Thus 
he was elected a Regent of the State University, and after repeat¬ 
ed refusals to accept, was appointed, by Gov. F. W. Pitkin, of hap¬ 
py memory, to be a Brigadier General of Colorado Militia, 

The author of “Light”, the Masonic poem which has made the 
round of the globe, takes special pleasure in calling attention to 
Mr. Woodbury’s record in the “most ancient craft of the world”. 
Mr. Woodbury has been Grand. Master, Grand High Priest, and 
Grand Commander. - Brethren know what that means. 

The Masonic Temple Association of Denver was a creation of 
Mr Woodbury, who was made its president and for several years 
had charge of the joint financial and building affairs of all Mason¬ 
ic bodies in Denver. 

In 1886, Mr. Woodbury purchased a block of stock in the Un¬ 
ion Bank of Denver, which since then has been re-organized as the 
LTnion TNational Bank, with a capital of $1,000,000 paid up, and a 
record, such as any other bank in the whole country may well 
envy. Mr. Woodbury is the President of this staunch institution. 

Mr. Woodbury’s connection with the Chamber of Commerce 
and Board of Trade of Denver, forms a large part of the history 
of that body, where we will speak of it further. 



THE UNION NATIONAL BANK OF 

DENVER, 


ESTABLISHED AS A STATE BANK EIGHTEEN YEARS. 


RESOURCES. 

Loans, Discounts and overdrafts, $1,566,829 94 


Bonds, Stocks, etc., - - 84,060, 41 

Sight Exchange, - 161,466 82 

Furniture and fixtures, - - 11,925 00 

Current expenses and taxes paid, 13,967 67 
Premiums on U, S. bonds - - 6,250 00 

Cash on hand - - 239,891 40 


Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer 2.250 00 


LIABILITIES 

Capital Stock - - - -$1,000,000 00 

Undivided profits - 62,879 73 

National bank notes outstanding 45,000 00 

Deposits - 978,761 51 


Total, 


$2-086,641 24 


Total 


DIRECTORS: 


$2,086,641 24 


It. W, WOODBURY, Prest. 
W, H. TRASK, Cashier. 
ALFRED BUTTERS. 

WM. D. TODD. 

SAMUEL LESEM. 

E. W. ILLIUS. 


M. SPANGLER, 1st Y. P. 
Wm. N. BYERS, 2nd Y. P. 
FRANK TRUMBULL. 
JOHN C. GALLUP, 

J. A. HAYS, Jr. 
WILLIAM GEDDIS. 


JNO. M. BERKEY 





































































































































































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HON, E. R. BARTON, 
Sheriff of Arapahoe County. 


It is seldom that a man in official life becomes as universally 
popular or retains the admiration of the public as Mr. Barton. In 
his case, all party lines are obliterated, although he is a Democrat 
in politics, there are thousands of Republicans as ardent in his sup¬ 
port as the strongest Democrat possibly could be, and a popular 
uprising of the whole people, as it were, lands him where the peo¬ 
ple want him, because they know that he will serve them well, 




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will redeem every pledge that he makes and conduct the public 
business upon the strictest principles of busines integrity. 

Such a reputation is not built up in a day, nor in a year: it is 
the work of decades and of conscientious performance of duty. 

On June 1st., it will be twenty years that Mr. Barton is in 
Denver and has been actively engaged in large business operations,, 
principally as Manager of the Continental Oil and Transportation 
Company. 

During this period, he has, in a most practical way, done much 
for the up-building of our city, engaging extensively in the build¬ 
ing and loan association business. He was a Director of the “Sons 
of America” Building Asso., which has just wound up its affairs 
in a highly satisfactory manner, having given homes, in the easiest 
way, to many, and good profits to others; he is also a Director of 
the “Centennial” and a Director and President of the “Globe” 
Building and Loan Asociation. These institutions, when under 
the management of such men as Mr. Barton, do more for the de¬ 
velopment of a city than any other agency, because they build up 
homes and create taxable property where this, otherwise, would 
not be possible. 

Mr.Barton was also the originator and is now a stockholder 
and director of the State National Bank, organized in 1881, a 
strong financial institution. 

Mr. Barton has served Arapahoe County, two terms as County 
Commissioner, being the chairman of the board for two years. 

In this office he was ever vigilant of the interests of the county 
and exercised his great business ability. 

It was he who originated the construction of Arapahoe County’s 
new jail, a building which has become indispensable, and his 
wisdom, in this move, has long since been demonstrated. 

In 1889, he was elected Sheriff of Arapahoe County, by a maj¬ 
ority of over 5300, which is an astonishing figure when we contem¬ 
plate that the county is Bepublican by at least 4000. 

The office is a very important one, as the county is 156 miles 


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long by 30 miles wide and contains the city of Denver with her 
vast wealth and especially her great rail road center and travel. 

The force under him is necessarily very large, and no officer 
ever paid stricter attention to the character and actions of his 
subalterns than does Sheriff Barton. 

Mr. John Vaughn is the clerk in the office; John H. Hopkins, 
jailor; and Wm. E. Welch under sheriff. All these men are of 
sterling character and proven experience. 

Sheriff Barton can jnstly feel proud that under his administra¬ 
tion, the last city election in April, was the purest one, perhaps 
ever held in any city. There were deputies stationed at every 
poll with orders to see that no disturbance was created, no repeat¬ 
ing or illegal voting done and that every one entitled to vote, was 
allowed to do so. The Sheriff himself was out, all day, making 
grand rounds in his buggy, and the result was highly satisfactory. 

Mr. Barton, although he has filled many offices, has never 
sought political preferment, in liis case, it has always been the office 
seeking the man, and it is to be hoped that, ere long, all over 
our country, public places of trust and honor will be filled by just 
such men of sterling character, independent of political wrangles 
and manipulations. 


MR. WM. E. WELCH, 

UNDER SHERIFF OF ARAPAHOE COUNTY. 



Mr. Welcli was horn in Ohio, in 44 and attended school there, 
later graduating at the Iowa University. Like many prominent 
men, he taught school for some time and then entered business. 

When his father was elected Sheriff of Dickinson Co., Kas, he 
was made chief deputy, and so well was the office conducted that 
Sheriff Welch was retained for three terms. 

After this, he served two years in the Sheriff’s office at Kansas 
City, and in 77, came to Denver, going into business. 

Mr. Welch has just been appointed Under Sheriff, an office for 
which no man in the state is better qualified; he is a man of milit¬ 
ary and chivalous bearing, neat in his tastes and princely in his 
generosity. No man in Denver is better known or has a larger 
circle of true and devoted friends. A Democrat in politics, he has 
ever been loyal to his party, even when others, through selfishness 
proved untrue, he would not repay them in the same coin but was 
always found where his character of strict honor places him. 





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TION. OTTO HEARS, 
“The Pathfinder.’' 


Like so many of our great men, Mr Mears lias his own efforts 
alone to thank for the phenomenal success he has achieved, and 
his career is only another illustration of the fact that pluck and 
perseverance are bound to win. 

Porn in Russia, on the third day of May, 1841, he came to San- 
Francisco, Cal. in 1853 and at that early age, not only “did for 
himself” hut by his keen powers of observation and great circum¬ 
spection, gained a large experience in business matters and public 
affairs, and immediately upon the breaking out of the war, follow- 




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eel the promptings of his patriotism, joining the first regiment of' 
California Volunteers. 

His military record is highly honorable to him, on many occa¬ 
sions, he showed great courage and presence of mind, gaining the 
commendation of his superiors. It gave him also the occasion for 
acquiring that firmness of character and decisiveness of action 
which, since then, have made him one of the public benefactors of 
our state. 

Mustered out in 1864, he took a position as clerk in a store and 
became so well liked by his employers that they made him collec¬ 
tor. But he could not long remain in a dependent position, and 
soon launched out in business for himself, establishing a general 
merchandise store at Santa Fe, N. M.. Although successful from 
the start, he found business in that territory too slow for him, and 
in 1865, was attracted by the great natural resources and possi¬ 
bilities of our state which his keen foresight clearly recognized at 
that early date.. 

Settling at Conejos, he opened his store and also went into the 
saw and grist mill business, his associate in this enterprise being 
Major Head, since then Lieut. Governor of the state. 

Always looking around for a still wider field of action, he re¬ 
moved to Saguache in 66, engaging in farming and stock raising 
as well as opening trading posts among the L T te Indians. 

At this period he began his remarkable career as a road builder 
which has given him the justly earned and honorable surname- 
“The Pathfinder of Colorado.” Opening in 1867, the first toll 
road ever built in Colorado, at Ponclia Pass, he followed it up in 
1872 by a road to Lake City, 95 miles long, and in 75 he built a 
mountain pass to Ouray which first opened out that morvelously 
rich section. Being universally popular among the people who 
owed him a vast debt of gratitude, he was chosen to many public 
positions and became the foremost man in his section. In 76, lie 
was Presidential Elector, in 79 he was appointed Indian Commis¬ 
sioner, to make a treaty with the Utes for their removal to Utah. 
He was the right man in the right place, as he had by fair dealing^ 


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gained the confidence of the Indians. In 1881, he built the Mar¬ 
shall Pass toll-road and also one to Telluride. In 83, Saguache 
county sent him to the legislature, and in 84, he completed the 
road from Ped Mountain to Silverton. 

Mr. Mears however in 87, commenced work on a still grander 
scale and in 88, finished the Silverton P. P. known as the “Pain- 
how Ponte” of which he is President and which is a great attrac- 
tion to tourists as well as a benefit to commerce. 

The crowning work of his life however is the completion of the 
Pio Grande Southern P. P., 180 miles long, and the most costly 
of construction in the state. 

Mr- Mears is now a member of the State Board of Capitol Com¬ 
missioners, and can almost always be found at the State House in 
Denver. 

No man has done more for the state than he and none is more 
universally and deservedly popular, although his great wealth 
and prominent position has excited the envy of some cheap pol¬ 
iticians and sensationalists. He is a man of culture and refinement, 
always busy but always easy of approach and affable to all. His 
name will be on every tongue in the country which he has opened 
up, and made, as it were, long after most public men of to-day 
will be forgotten. 

THE RAINBOW ROUTE. 

Otto Mears’ Famous Silverton & Red Mountain Railroad. 

From the Red Mountain Journal. 

There are but few tourists who complete the circuit of the “Scenic Line of the 
World” who are aware that when they arrive at either Silverton or Ouray that 
the gap of twenty-one miles between these two mountain mining cities is an en¬ 
tirely different system connecting the southern terminus at Ouray to the north 
ern terminus at Silverton of the Denver A Rio Orande Raihoad system by this 
silver link and wonderful little giant railroad, conceived and carried out by the 
foresight and indomitable energy of the Hon. Otto Mears. Long before he had 
matured the idea of building this road, he had us already supplied with one of 
the best systems of toll roads in the state; he is truly the pioneer and pathfinde r 
of this wonderful rich mineral region. Utilizing and widening out old Indian 
trails for his toll roads, and finding these inadequate for the immense trrffic, his 
sagacity prompted him to utilize these in turn for his railroad beds. 



HON. H. H. EDDY, 

fT" Representative from Routt and Grand Counties. 

The subject of this sketch was born in Milwaukee, "\Vis., in 
1855, but received his education in New York and Massachusetts. 

Admitted to the bar in 78, he came to Leadviile and visited 
several other places in the state, before finally locating. Mr. 
Eddy’s travels took him to New Mexico, where he was appointed 
U, S. District Attorney and Agent of the General Land Office- 

Settling in Routt Co., in this state, he was in 80, elected to 
the state senate and returned in 84, where he served with such 
distinction that in 88 he was elected to the lower house and was 
in 89, by a unanimous vote made Speaker. Of all the members in 
that assembly only two were re-elected and Mr. Eddy was one of 
them. On the floor of the house, he has been a power, being the 
leader of his party, thoroughly conversant with parliamentary 
rules, ready in debate and repartee and posted on every public 
question. 

Mr Eddy is engaged in the cattle business employing a number 
of men, all of whom he treats in such a manner that they are for¬ 
ever devoted to him. 

The fall of 92 will, beyond a question, find him the nominee of 
his party for Congress, and when elected, he will at once make an 
influential and useful member. 




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THE GERMAN NATIONAL 

=T ANKim^i- 


ESTABLISHED IN 1874 , 

As the German Bank, incorporated under present name as a National Bank in 

1878 , and made a U. S. Depository. 

OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS. 


J. J. Riethmaxn’ Prest. D. C. Dodge, V. Prest. 

John Good. T. M. Wilson. 

J. J. Riethmann, Jr. 


Chas. M. Clinton, 
Cashier. 


Chas. Kunsemiller, Jr. r 
Asst. Cashier. 









































































































































































































































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COL. A. C. FISK. 

No man in any large city of our great country lias a better re¬ 
cord for brilliant achievements in time of war and for useful activ¬ 
ity in time of peace, than Col. Archie C. Fisk. 

Born in the Empire state in 1836, he received a common school 
education and entered life in the humble position of a clerk in a 
store at Elyria, O.. 

As soon as the war broke out, his great love of country promp¬ 
ted him to assist in the raising of a company which was assigned 
to the 23rd Ohio Infantry, and of which in 1861 he was made a 
lieutenant, being detailed for duty on the staff of “Old Rosy.” 
Early in 62, he was made assistant comraisary of subsistence and 
participated in the West Virginia campaign, also in the battles of 
second Bull Run, South Mountain and that hard fought field, 
Antietam. 

His superior officers soon appreciated his great executive ability 
and he was assigned to duty on the general staff which directs the 
movements of armies, corps and divisions. While on the staff of 
General Hugh Ewing, he joined uncle “Billy Sherman’s” army, 
and being transferred to duty with General J. A. J. Lightburn, 
took part in all the actions which constitute the memorable siege 
of Vicksburg and ended in the capture of that stronghold as a 
present to Uncle Sam., July 4th. 1863.—Then he staid with “Old 
Tecump” all through Alabama and as Ajut. General of the 2nd. 
Division of the 15th. Army Corps, he marched to the relief of 
Knoxville in East Tennessee.—His services before Vicksburg be¬ 
ing well remembered, he was made Adjutant General for the mil¬ 
itary District of Vicksburg. 



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While in this position, in January 65, he did a great service to 
many of his countrymen and humanity. 

While interviewing a Confederate General who asked some fa¬ 
vors under a flag of truce, he met Howard A. M. Henderson who 
was Exchange Agent for the Confederate government. They drew 
up a stipulation for the exchange of all prisoners in Andersonville 
Ga. and Cohaba, Ala. The stipulation thus made by Adjut. Gen¬ 
eral Fisk was entirely approved by the authorities of the War de¬ 
partment, and its provisions carried out. A camp was established 
near Vicksburg to which 5,000 unfortunate prisoners were 
brought from Andersonville and over 8,000 from Cohaba, both 
pens being then vacated. Gratitude prompted the poor prisoners 
to uame this place “Camp Fisk,” in honor of their liberator. The 
Colonel has a picture of it hanging in his office. Many a thousand 
hearts sent up fervent prayers of thanks for this one act alone, 
done by Col. Fisk.—Howard A. M. Henderson who conducted the 
negotiations on the southern side is now a Methodist minister of 
national reputation and great usefulness at Cincinnati, O. 

Another item of interest is that the stipulation between Mr. 
Fisk and the Rev. Henderson was signed in General Logan’s .old 
stone house headquarters. 

At the end of the war, Adjutant General Archie C. Fisk’s name 
was attached to the paroles of over 75,000 Confederate soldiers, 
and he furnished them transportation to their homes- The reader 
should also remember that while Mr. Fisk was Adjutant General, 
martial law ruled in the land, all jurisdiction was in Provost 
courts and their proceedings had to be approved at headquarters, 
so that by one stroke of his pen, the Adj. Genl. could either ap¬ 
prove or disapprove all findings of the courts in criminal and civil 
actions. 

Great as was his power and responsibility, he discharged his 
duties to the satisfaction of all. 

After the war, he settled in Vicksburg, going into busines. In 
68, he was a delegate to the convention which nominated Grant 


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and also was chairman of the state, and a member of the National 
Republican central committee. 

In 72, he came to Denver, and after serving three years as clerk 
of the district court, engaged in business. The Col. has platted 
more additions to the city than any other three men, he is Vice 
Pres, of the Fort Morgan Natl. Bank, a member of the Denver 
Chamber of Commerce and of the Real Estate Exchange, Pres¬ 
ident and Manager of the American Trust Co. and also of the 
Denver Land and Improvement Co. and as a public spirited man 
he stands at the head of the front rank. No man has done more 
to interest capital in Denver. He has a beautiful home of which 
we give an illustration and owns a great deal of real estate.. 



RESIDENCE OF COL, A. C. FISK. 































GEO. ADY, 

General Passenger Agent, U. P. P. P. (Gulf Div.) 

Immediately upon, the breaking out of the war,Mr. Ady volun¬ 
teered and served until the victory was won, to which result he con¬ 
tributed his full share by bravery on many a field. No man has a 
brighter war record; and his comrades of the G. A- P. delight in 
honoring him. 

Since February 1869, Mr. Ady has been in the rail road 
service, so that he can soon celebrate his twenty fifth anniversary 

Since coming to Colorado, he has been General Passenger 
Agent on the Denver A South Park, then when the Denver, 
Texas & Fort Worth known as the “Pan Handle” was completed, 
he took the same position with that route, and upon its consolida¬ 
tion with the U. P., lie was retained in his station, which he fills 
with ability and fidelity. A great future is before Mr. Ady. 



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THE COLORADO MINING STOCK EXCHANGE. 

This institution is destined to become one of the most important boards of 
trade, not only in the country, but of the world. 

When first spoken of, many mining men were indifferent on the subject and 
some openly hostile, but the projectors were live and active men and soon secur¬ 
ed enough members to commence business on July 18th 1869, in a basement 
room of the “Times” building. The first directors were Messrs. George F. 
Batchelder, Charles E. Taylor,'John L. McNeil, H. E. Wood, A. H. Weber, M. 
E. Smith, E, F. Halleck, Frank A. Miller, H. B. Gillespie, H. Van F. Furman 
and O. H Whitcomb with Geo. F. Batchelder for Pres.; C. E. Taylor, vice pres¬ 
ident: John L. McNeil treasurer and W.C. Wyncoop secretary. 

The membership was limited to 500 with an initation fee of $200. There 
were three properties listed when the exchange began business, namely: the 
May Mazeppa, Alleghany and Brownlow. 

Through the energy and masterly management of the board, the exchange, 
from the start became popular, so that it became advisable to increase the mem¬ 
bership to 600, make the price of the certificate $500, each and also advance the 
fee for listing properties, as there were many applications. The listing commit¬ 
tee exercised great care in the admission of properties and, at an early date, 
classified them as mines-those who pay dividends - and prospects - those who 
do not. 

Public confidence was established; the brokers received numerous orders, 
not only from city and state, but from all over the country as well as Eu¬ 
rope. It was soon found that the quarters, in which the exchange started were 
too small and the auditorium of the Chamber of Commerce building was rented. 

During calls, even this large hall was always crowded, the galleries being filled 
with ladv spectators, interested in the dealings of their brokers. 

When the second election approached, the issue was whether or not the ex¬ 
change should erect a large structure of their own, and the builders triumphed 
electing C. E. Taylor, president; M. E. Smith vice president; Oney Carstarphen,’ 
secretary and Dennis Sheedy treasurer. These officers managed affairs so well 
that all were unanimously re-elected April 25th. 

In the meantime, a clearing nouse had also been established with J. M. Clark¬ 
son as manager. On the board are now listed thirty seven properties, over four¬ 
ty million dollars worth of stocks have changed hands, and most of the stocks go 
current as money at the market price. 

Through the great energy of Pres. Taylor, the bonds for the erection of the 
new Mining Stock Exchange building were readily placed to advantage, four 
lots on the corner of Fifteenth and Arapahoe Strs, a business center, were pur¬ 
chased and the building is now well under way and will be finished in Septem¬ 
ber. It will cost nearly $400,000 and will be elegant in all its appointments, in- 
cludiug the Exchange Hall, fifty by seventy-five feet, a handsome foyer for la¬ 
dies and spectators, officers rooms, telegraph office, an exhibition room for min- 
specimens together with a free library of books on all minsng matters, nine 
store rooms, including a bank on the corner and 149 officers to be rented. 


THE MAY-MAZEPPA. 


Among the great corporations of America, the May-Mazeppa Mining Com' 
pany is bound to occupy a front rank. 

The company owns eighty acres of patented mineral lands of the highest 
character. The camp in which the property is located, White Pine, Gunnison 
county, Colorado, is already the third best producer of all the camps in' the 
country, and the day is not far off when it will closely press Leadville and As¬ 
pen for first place. 

Indeed, all competent judges seem to agree that this will be as soon as the 
Denver & Rio Gtande, the great pioneer road of Colorado, reaehes the camp 
which is only a question of a short time, as a branch road from Sargent to this 
point is in immediate contemplation and is easy of construction. 

The history of this mining company is something remarkable. No other stock 
ever jumped into public favor and retained the confidence in such a manner, as 
the May-Mazeppa has done, since Mr. Chas. E Taylor has managed the property 

The geological formation is somewhat similar to that found at Leadville and 
Aspen. The outcrop was found half way between shales and quartzite, on the 
contact in the lime. Enough ground has been opened up to enable the com* 
pany to make a perpetual output of ore. At present the result is from 30 to 50- 
tons per day, running upward of $70 to the ton, and the amount of ore, already 
in sight, would figure up several millions. 

The stock is listed on the Mining Stock Exchange and has justly deen called* 
the “backbone” of that institution. It started at 28c.. never declined a single day 
whenever offered, it found ready cash takers and, from day to day, at enhanced 
figures, untit $1.20 was reached, when the stock was temporarily withdrawn and; 
the capitalization doubled, each share being made two. This new stock was 
again called May Sth 1890 at 59c. and steadily rose. The first dividend of 1 c. 
per share was paid June 15th, 90, and a dividend has been paid monthly, being 
increased to per share, which will be increased still further. At present, the 

stock sells at $1.20 a share, but as competent judges think that the ore in sight 
already is worth at least double the present capitalization, many people who 
have been fortunate enough to secure some of this stock, prefer to hold it as a 
permanent investment, for the dividends it is Lunging and will bring. 

The dividends paid since June last year, amount to $120,000 already. There 
is no doubt that the stock is worth twice its present quotation, and will reach, 
that mark sooner than even the best friends of it expect. 


COLONEL CHARLES E. TAYLOR. 

FOR PORTRAIT SEE PAGE 129. 

President of the Colorado Mining Stock Exchange 
AND OF THE MaY-MaZEPPA MlNING COMPANY. 

Mr. Taylor comes from an old Virginia family and was born 
July 4tli, 1847, a day which seems appropriate for a man who has 
achieved so many victories in the battles of life. 

Engaging early in life, in the tobacco business, he was so suc¬ 
cessful in his hrst venture that he cleared $1500, in one day. This 
quick transaction shows the firm determination and decisiveness 
of action which have been characteristic features of the man, ever 
since. 

In 1870, he removed to Louisville, Ivy. and built, the next year, 
a large warehouse. But the field was not wide enough for a man 
of Mr Taylor’s activity, and in 72 we find him in ISew York, 
founding the National Tobacco inspection as a member of the 
firm of W. J. Iloodes & Co, 

He next organized the firm of Squires, Taylor & Co, engaged in 
the commission business,the transactions of which aggregated over 
a million per annum. Mr. Squires dying, Mr. Taylor conducted the 
business alone until 80, when he visited Colorado for recreation. 

His great powers of observation led him to investigate the min¬ 
ing industry of the state and he at once became interested. East¬ 
ern folks, at that time, did not look favorably upon mining, but 
Mr. Taylor quickly comprehended its possibilities and great im¬ 
portance. He became its champion among the moneyed men of 
New York, and as he was possessed of the unlimited confidence of 
many influential men, he was entrusted with sufficient capital. He 


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returned to Colorado, opening up the Quartzite Gold Mine Con¬ 
tact upon Battle Mountain and became the manager of the Ground 
Hog Mining & Milling Company. lie also was instrumental in 
working the Treasure Vault on Holy Cross Mt. 

But his greatest work was the buying up of all conflicting in¬ 
terests in the May Mazeppa (seeP 117) and organizing a company 
on that property. Since Col. Taylor has managed it, the property 
has become a great producer and is now one of the bonanzas which 
steadily put out ever increasing riches. There is no stock of any 
kind, neither railroad, banking or manufacturing, which yields the 
investor such large and sure profits as does the May Mazeppa. 

Mr. Taylor was also one of the originators of the Colorado Min¬ 
ing Stock Exchange and became its first vice president. 

As the second annual election approached, the question whether 
or not the exchange should erect a large and stately building as 
the centralization of Colorado’s mining interests and business, be¬ 
came the issue of the day. This question had been championed by 
Mr. Taylor’s progressive energy, but a good many members 
thought it was better to go slow and were opposed to the project.. 

However, the builders triumphed, Mr. Taylor was elected Pres¬ 
ident of the Exchange and appointed a building committee, com¬ 
posed of energetic men. He himself went East and negotiated 
the bonds for the building fund, on the most favorable terms. 

This building of which we speak on page 116, will be an or¬ 
nament to the city, will cost nearly $400,000, and will be com¬ 
pleted in September of this year. 

Under Mr. Taylor’s presidency, the Exchange has flourished 
and promises to become one of the most important boards of trade 
in the world of finance. 

He has just been re-elected its president and it is safe to predict 
that his usefulness and enterprise will accomplish more good still 
in the future. 

Mr. Taylor even now is a man of national reputation and as he: 
is still young, has many more victories before him. 



THE KIMBALL RED SANDSTONE COMPANY. 

GEO. L. KIMBALL, 

Vice President and General Manager. 

Wliat a firm determination can do, is most strikingly illustrated 
in Mr. Kimball’s history. When he was only fifteen years old, 
his father lost his property and the hoy was not only thrown on 
his own resources but had to care for the entire family, as his fa¬ 
ther war unfortunate enough to lose his health also. He was a 
resident of Maine and worked in a paper mill, where for months 
:at a time, he often toiled eighteen hours out of twenty-four. 





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By working night and mornings and walking two miles to- 
school besides, he attended academy and fitted himself for College 
through which he worked himself with credit, by his own hard 
efforts. 

It was his intention to study medicine, but it seemed that hard 
luck pursued him, for his eyes failed and for two years his sight 
was lost. 

However his plucky nature could not be overcome by adver¬ 
sity; he engaged in the cooperage business, making hogsheads 
which were shipped ready to be set up at the point of destination. 

The West India business in these is very large, Cuba alone us¬ 
ing annually a million of hogsheads, of which Mr. Kimball sup¬ 
plied between five and six hundred thousand, shipping also to- 
Portland, Kew York, Philadelphia and Baltimore. 

In 1888, Mr. Kimball decided to change his place of business- 
and went to the Pacific coast, through Oregon and Washington,, 
looking for a location. Stopping off, for one night, at Denver, 
he did what many others have done, he stayed here permanently,, 
seeing at a glance of his experienced eye, the business advantages 
as well as the fine climate and fascinating beauty of the city as a. 
place of residence. 

He organized the Kimball Bed Sandstone Co., whose output 
has acquired great fame as a building material, not only in Den¬ 
ver, but abroad. When first quarried, the stone is easily dressed 
and takes a beautiful finish, but it soon grows hard and becomes as 
solid as granite. The Company employs more than 200 men at 
their three quarries, and besides the red sandstone, furnishes Flag¬ 
ging Curbing, Footing, Paving, Dimension Stone, Bubble, etc., 
in large quantities. Their stone can be found in many structures, 
notable among which the new Mining Stock Exchange building 
which, when completed will cost $400,000, the Denver Univer¬ 
sity, Chamberlin Observatory, Boston Block (cost $600,000), the 
new county jail, etc., and is shipping to St. Louis, Chicago, Salt 
Lake, Omaha and even to the state of Washington, so far-famed 


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lias the stone become for its excellent qualities; and the company’s 
reputation for square dealing has extended so as to make it popular 
every-where. 

The President of the Kimball Red Sandstone Co. is H. B 
Chamberlin, the well known financier and head of the Chamberlin 
Investment Co.; Vice President and General Manager, Geo. L. 
Kimball, Secretary F. J. Chamberlin, also with the Investment 
Co., and Treasurer, George D. Kimball. Contracts in all parts 

of the country will be filled with the utmost promptitude. 

Estimates furnished on application. Address the Kimball. 

Red Sandstone Co., Xos.62—3 Railroad Building, Denver, Col. 



GRAND CAVERNS MAN1TOU. COLO. 










JOHN J. RIETHMAN, 

Pres. German National Bank, Denver, Colo. 


Mr. Diet liman was born in Lausanne, Switzerland on Novbr. 
20th, 1838. When he was ten years old, his family came to Ame¬ 
rica and first settled in Indiana. Early in life, Mr. Riethman de¬ 
veloped great, capacities for business, as he was employed in the 
Bank of the Capitol during the last few years of his residence at 
f ^ 1 e lie removed to Council Bluffs, la, in 58. 

In the fall of the same year, he and his brother, L. D. Rieth- 
man started across the plains to the Colorado gold fields. Arriv¬ 
ing at a point, called “Rough and Ready,” about two and a half 
miles down the Platte from the present City of Denver,they erec¬ 
ted a rough cabin in which his brother lived that winter, while 
he returned to Council Bluffs. On his trip East, he carried the 
first mail bag, ever taken from this point to the Missouri River. 

In 1859, Mr. Riethman returned and engao-ed in the business 
of baking crackers, which he continued until 1870. In 1867, Mr. 
Riethman went to California but returned the same year. 

Since 1868, he has been engaged in the Drug business, both 
wholesale and retail, and in this line, he has built up so successful 
a trade and so enviable a reputation, that his name is every where 
known and his custom extended in all the States and territories, 
tributary to Denver. Mr. Riethman is a gentleman of culture 
who likes to travel. He went to Europe in 1870 and again in 
1876, when he staid abroad three years, visiting Italy, Austria, 
Germany, France and England. Mr. Riethman was married in 
1863, to Miss Mao-dalena Eilbeck and has three sons and one 
daughter, all of whom have had the best educational facilities, 

O 7 7 

afforded by the United States and Europe. Mr. Riethman was 
the first President of the German Bank of Denver, founded in 
1874 which was later re-organized as the German National Bank 
and is one of the most solid financial institutions of the West. 

Mr. Riethman is now again President of the Bank. 



J. F. ADAMS, 

City Treasurer of Denver. 

The subject of this sketch belongs to the great Adams family, 
which has furnished our states so many prominent men in public 
and business life. 

Like all members of that renowned family, he is a fine specimen 
of physical and intellectual manhood. 

Dorn in 1842, in Cooper, Co., Mo., he received a thorough edu¬ 
cation in the Kemper family school, widely known for the ac¬ 
complishments of its pupils. lie was raised on a farm and was 
elected assessor of his county which office he tilled four years. 

Mr. Adams has also tought school in his native County for six 
years and was District Lecturer for the Grange. 

In 1879 Mr. Adams left his home and for a short time, resided 
in St. Louis, then going to Worth county, where he remained two 











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years, being engaged in the mercantile business and then removed 
to Holden, Johnson comity. But his health becoming impaired, 
he, in 81, came to Colorado and engaged in the hardware business 
in the city of Denver, at 2729 Larimer Street, building up an exten¬ 
sive trade which he still retains and annually enlarges. 

Since coming to Denver, Mr. Adams has been honored with 
several positions of trust and responsibility. In 1887, he was cho- 
sed alderman from the Eight Ward, serving two years and in Jan- 
nary 1890, he was appointed Under Sheriff of Arapahoe county, a 
position which he filled to the perfect satisfaction of Sheriff Bar- 
tan and the public, and which he retained until April 7th, he was 
elected City Treasurer by the rousing majority of 5949.—When a 
Democrat, in a strongly Republican city is elected by such a vote, 
it shows a popular uprising such as only sterling men of integrity 
and urbanity of manners, coupled with business capacity and ex. 
ecutive ability, can command. 

Being in the prime of life, of robust health—thanks to Colorado 
climate,—active and experienced in both public and business af¬ 
fairs, making friends in every station of life, Mr. Adams may well 
be expected to fill even more important offices. 

The position which he now occupies is one of great respon¬ 
sibility. the amount of funds which are handled in Denver’s city 
treasury, increases rapidly, from year to year, and requires great 
care not only in the handling but discrimination in receiving it 
from improper sources, such as unauthorized licenses, and in dis¬ 
bursing on illegal warrants. 

In this respect, Mr. Adams has proven himself already to be 
not only careful but always right and correct in his action. 

In 1865, Mr Adams was married to Mrs. M. F. Logan and has 
built up a very happy family. He has the proud satisfaction of 
seeing his son, Mr. J. Perry Adams, following in his footsteps as 
a good business man and a careful officer. Mr. J. Peray Abams is 
his father’s deputy as city treasurer and displays great ability and 
knowdedge of business affairs. 


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THE COLORADO JOURNAL. 

In Denver live many Germans and Swiss, speaking the German language . 
Amongst these are some of our millionaires who have made everything they 
have on earth, right here, and many who have been and are now prominent in 
political and business circles. Then there are thousands who live in humble 
homes, but all are intelligent and law abiding citizens and all are anxious fo at¬ 
tract to this city as many of their countrymen as possible. They have, for this 
purpose, several organs, but the Colorao Journal is the only daily among 
them. It is an ably edited and well printed paper, established in 1S72 by‘Messrs. 
Frank Kratzer and Edw. Reinbold who are still the owners, and have an exten¬ 
sive plant with which a job department is connected. Its circulation is quite ex¬ 
tensive and its influence felt in every campaign. 

THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS. 

Tnere is not a paper in the West, better known than the Rocky Mountain 
News, the pioneer paper of the city and state. 

William N. Byers & Co. established it in May 1S59 as a six column weekly, 
but as early as Aug. 18th, i860, it was changed into an evening daily and receiv¬ 
ed the first telegrams Nov. 13th, of the same year. In ’62, the firm changed 
to Byers & JJailv, the latter buying an interest which he retained until 1870, 
when Mr. Byers bought him out, and again became sole proprietor. In iS 7 S Mr. 
W. A. H. Loveland purchased the News and associated with himself John 
Arkins who became editor and manager. 

In 18S6 Mr. Loveland retired and John Arkins, James M. Burnell and Maurice 
Arkins became the owners. In 1890, Hon. Thomas Patterson bought the paper 
and assumed the editorial control, while Mr. Arkins retaind the post as manager. 

The News has been destroyed by fire and flood but always rose higher and 
higher. It has a large circulation, is Democratic in its politics and speaks out 
for Western and especially Colorado interests in a bold and fearless tone. 

THE DENVER REPUBLICAN. 

This paper was founded by Major Henry Ward, the “Mascot of Colorado 
Journalism” as his admirers call him, ana W. G. Brown who in June 1879, pur¬ 
chased the evening Democrat and changed it into a morning paper, giving it its 
present name. They sold it three months later, and after various changes, in 
Nov. 1880, the Republican Publishing Company was organized with a capital 
stock os $50,000. Mr. J. C. Wilson was president and treasurer; Mr, George T 
Clark, secretary and Jndge Amos Steck a director. June 21, 1881, the entire 
stock was sold to a syndicate and Mr. K. G. Cooper elected president and man¬ 
ager, on Aug 9th, of the same year, the stock being doubled and the present 
home of the Republican, a fine building on Sixteenth St., erected. 

In 1884, the stock was again doubled and the paper consolidated with the 
Tribune, Hon. R. H. Wolcott becoming pres., T. C. Henry, sec , and K. G. 
Cooper treas. and manager. Aug. 26, 1885 Hon. N. P. Hill puichased Hemy’s 


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stock and Mr. Crawford Hill became secretary. 

The Republican has an extensive circulation, wields an unfailing influence in 
politics, is ably edited and its spirit is fearless, not being tied to cliques or rings 
but boldly striking out for the best interests of the citv, county and state, as 
many politicians have experienced to their sorrow. 

THE COLORADO SUN. 

“It shines for all,,” is the motto of this bright and newsy sheet. 

The Sun was founded by Mr. Wm. Griffith, who immediately upon the sale of 
the “Times,” went to New York and purchased a complete plant for a first class 
morning daily. 

Major Henry Ward is the editor. There is no man in Colorado journalism 
better known or more deservedly appreciated than Major Ward who was the 
founder of the Republican and has worked on every paper of influence in the 
state, his services always being of the highest value to the public as well as the 
papers. 

On March 8th, the first number appeared and it became apparent at once that 
the Sun was equal to the very best, from the first day of publication. The com¬ 
ments of the state and outside press were very laudatory, and the new paper 
gained circulation with an unprecedented rapidity. When a journal, only two 
months old, has to print between 12,000 and 14,000 copies, as the Sun does, it is 
the strongest proof of public appreciation. 

THE MINING INDUSTRY AND TRADESMAN. 

This publication appears weekly and is devoted to the mining and smelting 
interests of the State. W. C. Wyncoop is Editor and Manager, under his manage¬ 
ment the paper has prospered being already in the eighth volume and enjoying 
a large circulation as well as advertising patronage. 

The paper has done much for the mining interests of the state. It was especial 
ly instrumental in the organization of the exchange and has imon more than one 
occasion exercised great influence in the adoption of wise measures. 

The subscription price is $3.00 per annum, and all who are interested in min¬ 
ing, should have it. 


THE MINING EXCHANGE JOURNAL, 

This Journal is the official organ of the Colorado Mining Stock Exchange and 
appears daily, bringing the market reports, quotations etc. as well as general cur¬ 
rent news, reports of mining companies and eveiv thing of inteiest. 

Under the business management of Mr. W. F. Reinert. the Journal has be¬ 
come a prosperous publication and the subscription list is constantly swelling. 

The subscription price is ^400 per aunum and capitalists as ^veli as mining 
men will find it a profitable investment to subscribe. 


LAKE CORINNE- 

Kroenke Basin, North Cottonwood Mining 
District, Chaffee County, Colo. 

Seethe lake, in midst of mountains, 

At the Continental Range, 

Which their snow-streams and their foun 
tains 

Pour into this basin strange. 

Here MountainHarvard’s rock-foundation 
There the Continent’s Divide, 

With abruptest inclination, 

Down into the waters glide. 

All around this mountain wonder, 

Trees and flowers and grasses green 
Hail the sun or brave the thunder 
With the lightning flashes keen. 

When the balmy morning kisses 
Every ripple on the lake, 

Silent prayers in heavenly blisses, 

Echoes of our heart awake. 

Far above us grandly tower 

Wintery peaks, so grim and bare; 

Here below, a sylvan bower 

Does surrond us, fresh and fair. 

There we learn that resolution, 

Like a giant, firm should stand ; 

Here, that grace and absolution 
For the willing are at hand. 

Far above us, towers duty 
With inflexible demands; 

Here, of faith and hope the beauty 
Charity for us commands. 

Lake Corinne, my angel daughter 
Seems to bend, from heaven above, 
Down into thy silver water, 

Emblem of her purest love. 

Here, I love to think of yonder, 

Where the darling angel dwells; 
Looking to the sky, I wonder, 

Why her name thy water tells. 

F. W. K.—September 7,1884 




COLONEL CHARLES E. TAYLOR. 
President of the Colorado Mining- Stock Exchange 
AND OF THE MaY-MaZEPPT MlNINO COMPANY. 

( Seepages 116. 117 & 118. ) 









HON. Win. VAN DEE WEYDEN. 

Eepresentative from Arapahoe County. 

Mr.Van der Weyden was born in Holland in 1851, and early 
went to sea with his father, who was master of a vessel. In '66 he 
came to America and after three years service in the West Indies 
trade in which he rose to the rank of second mate, and some ex¬ 
perience on the Lakes, he settled in Chicago. The last five years 
of his residence in that city, he was in the service of the Chicago 
E. R. when in ’79, he came to Colorado, desirous to be cured 
of the asthma. He immediately engaged in the hotel business 
and was very successful, so that now lie owns the Tenth Avenue 
Hotel and the Burnham House besides the popular saloon and 
restaurant on Larimer Street. Mr. Van der Weyden has a beauti¬ 
ful home-life with his family. He w r as elected Eepresentative by a 
very flattering vote and became a most influential member. 

The Anti-Pinkerton bill which he introduced and pressed to 
passage, will forever make him popular. 

By his great perseverance, business-like attention and vigilance, 
he made himself a most valuable member, and invoked the venom 
of some who cared only for temporary fame. Mr. Van der Wey¬ 
den’s speech, delivered on March 3, 1891, in the house, was a 
masterpiece of eloquence and sound logic. 

In the next house he will occupy a still more conspicuous place. 








HON. JAS. N. CARLISLE, 


STATE TREASURER OF COLORADO. 

Mr. Carlisle, of Pueblo county, but as bis friends state it, of 
Colorado, is one of tbe pioneers of the state. 

He came here in 1860, when only about twenty years old, and 
has spent more than thirty years of his useful life in helping to 
build up all the material interests of our great state. When he 
first came to Fairplay he engaged in mining for two years. There 
was no state then, all he found was a wilderness, out of which, men 
with pluck and grit, such as he, could carve fortunes for them¬ 
selves and build up a magnificent empire for those who came after 
them. 





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In 1862 Mr. Carlisle began liis great career as a freighter, be¬ 
tween Denver and the Missouri river and Cheyenne, a business at 
that time, connected, not only with great inconvenience, but with 
many personal dangers. 

But this business proved too small a field for his enterprise and 
he soon engaged in the railroad contracting business, constructing 
many hundreds of miles on the D. & R. G. R. R. 

In 1869 he received large contracts, and has, since then, con¬ 
structed road-bed on the Kansas Pacific, Denver and Rio Grande, 
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, Missouri Pacific, Union Pacific 
and other roads, No name of a railroad contractor in this west- 
tern country is more widely or more favorably known than that of 
Mr. Carlisle. 

In these large transactions, Mr. Jas. Dorman, of Pueblo, was 
his partner. 

In 1888, Mr. Carlisle was one of the delegates to the Rational 
Convention which re-nominated President Cleveland. 

Mr. Carlisle was one of the party who constructed the first 
wagon road up to the top of Pike’s Peak, a road which affords 
more superb views than any other high way in the world, as has 
often been stated by world-renowned travellers. Huntley and 
Carlisle still run their stages from Cascade Canon to the top of 
the pinnacle during the season, making the trip between breakfast 
and supper. That prince amongst men. Geo. W. Alden. has 
charge of this route. 

Hundreds of people come annually to Colorado just for the 
sake of this one trip alone. 

Mr. Carlisle is known all over the state as the very personifica¬ 
tion of honesty and fairness. No enterprise was ever started in 
Pueblo, or in other parts of Colorado, in which he did not take a 
prominent part. 

When he was, last summer, nominated for State Treasurer on 
the Democratic ticket, it was a foregone conclusion that he would 
be elected. The State Treasurers had made large sums of money 
out of interest on state funds, and when he published a card stat. 




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ing that ho would recover all interests into the treasury, the voters 
of the state knew that he would do it. 

Although Colorado is a Republican state, Mr. Carlisle was 
elected by a good majority. 

Probably no man ever received a more flattering ovation than 
did Mr. Carlisle after the election, tendered him and his family 
by all the people, irrespective of party. 

Mr. Carlisle has faithfully carried out his pledges. 

Major Cluist. Wilson is Mr. Carlisle’s chief deputy in the state 
treasurer’s office, and is the right man in the right place, as he 
is one of the most competent business men of the state, univers¬ 
ally beloved by all who know him, for his sterling qualities and 
strict integrity, and under his supervision, the affairs of the office 
are run on strictly business principles. 


THE WOEBER BROS. CARRIAGE COMPANY. 

This company has probably the largest carriage works in the West, established 
since 1867, although only lately incorporated. The capital employed is $75,000., 
Mr. A. Woeber is Pres, Chas. Williams Sec., and A. Woeber Jr., Treas. 

Their carworks on So. Broadway turn out the finest street cars, and they have 
furnished a large number to our electric and cable companies. The capacity is 
250 per annum. 

At their carriage works; they turn out all styles of carriages, buggies and wag¬ 
ons from the lightest road cart to the heaviest mountain gear, being unexcelled 
for style and strength. 

The office and carriage works are on Eleventh Street, between Larimer and 
Market. 

Their pay roll is quite large and many workmen as well as mechanics are em¬ 
ployed. 







HON. JOHN M. HENDERSON, 

Auditor, State of Colorado. 

Born at Titusville, Fa., on Febry. 27th 1858, Mr. Henderson 
graduated from the High School of that place in June 1874, and 
came to Colorado, the July following. 

In this State, Mr. Henderson has been interested in the cattle 
and sheep business as well as in banking. 

The Republican State Convention of 1888. held at Pueblo, el¬ 
ected him a delegate to the ISational Republican nominating con¬ 
vention, in which Mr. Henderson voted for General Harrison. 
Mr. Henderson was an original Harrison man, remembering that 
his father, forty-eight years previous to that had voted for General 
Wm. Henry Harrison. 

In 1890 Mr. Henderson was elected State Auditor, a place 










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which he fills with ability and close attention to business. 

His place of residence is Sterling, in Logan county, a growing 
town in the North Eastern part of the State. 

In Masonry. Mr. Henderson is a member of the Blue Lodge, 
Chapter Council, Commandery and Mystic Shrine and has often 
been honored by the brethren of the most ancient craft in the 
world 

May 14th 1890, Mr. Henderson was married to Miss Clara B. 
Shedd, a young lady of many accomplishments and great mental 

Being in the prime of life, popular not only in his home county 
but all over the State; occupying a position in which the full abil¬ 
ity and sterling character of the man can come out in all their 
scope, and hailing from a section of Colorado which is new and 
where men of vim, energy and reliability have a wide field of ac¬ 
tivity, Mr. Henderson will certainly rise still very much higher 
in public position and confidence. 

The office which he now fills, is in many respects the one place 
of greatest responsibility, as all the bills and expenditures of the 
state have to be passed upon in his office, a position which re¬ 
quires not only sterling integrity, but also the closest discrimina¬ 
tion. But Mr. Henderson has, since he entered the office, 
fully demonstrated that the people of the state made no 
mistake in choosing him, and that he is indeed the right man in 
the right place. 




H01N . JOSEPH H. MAUPIN, 


Attorney General of the State of Colorado. 

This gentleman was horn in Columbia, Boone County, Mo., on 
April 13tli., 1856, and his early life was spent upon a farm in his 
native county. 

Receiving a thorough education, he graduated from the law de¬ 
partment of the Missouri State University in the year 1878, at the 
age of twenty-one years, and immediately came to Colorado, set¬ 
tling in Huerfano county, where he engaged in the practice of his 
profession. 

Mr. Maupin continued to reside in this county until the winter 
of 1883, when he moved to Canon City. Here lie built up a lu¬ 
crative practice and soon became known as one of the brightest and 
most successful lawyers in his section. 

In 1886, he was, by the Democratic party nominated for State 




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Senator in the district comprising Park and Fremont counties, 
against the Hon. J. A. McCandless, also of Fremont county. 

Although Fremont was a strongly Republican county, Mr. 
Maupin carried it against his opponent, which was a great person¬ 
al triumph, but Park returned just enough majority for the dom¬ 
inant party to defeat him by the small margin of fifty-five votes. 

In April 1885 he was elected Mayor of Canon City, and was re¬ 
elected in 1886, a great tribute by his home people to his person¬ 
al worth. 

In the fall of 1888, his party nominated him for the office of 
District attorney of the Third Judicial District, and although he 
ran largely ahead of his ticket, a vote very flattering to him per¬ 
sonally, lie could not overcome the large political majority against 
his party. 

On November 1st. of that year, he married Miss Lilly McClure 
of Denver, a Colorado young lady who had been born in Canon 

City. 

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Last summer, Mr. Maupin was nominated on the Democrat¬ 
ic ticket for the office of Attorney General of the State and al¬ 
though the majority of the State officers elected, were Republicans 
he defeated his opponent. 

Mr. Maupin is the first Democratic Attorney General, our State 
has ever had, his triumph is largely due to his own personal pop¬ 
ularity and the confidence which the people of his section of the 
state repose in his sterling integrity and manful character. 

Being still a very young man and placed in a position, the re¬ 
sponsibility of which can bring out his qualifications to their full¬ 
est extent, it is safe to say that higher honors await him. 

There probably never was a period in the history of any state 
when the office of Attorney General was more important and 
fraught with greater responsibility than it is just at present in 
Colorado. But Mr Maupin’s friends know that lie will be equal 
to the occasion and expect that he will earn a great reputation 
which will forever gain him a prominent place in the history, not 
only of the state but of the country. 



HON. NATHAN B. COY, 

State Superintendent of Public Instruction. 

Born Aug. 30th, 1847, Mr. Coy, when eight years old, removed 
with his father’s family, to Sandusky, 0-, the excellent public 
school system of this latter place laying the foundation to Prof. 
Coy’s fine education. He prepared for college at Williams Sem¬ 
inary, East Hampton, Mass, and was graduated from Yale Un¬ 
iversity in tlie class of 1870. 

It had been Mr. Coy’s intention to study medicine, but he re¬ 
sorted to teaching as a means of obtaining funds for the pursuance 
of his professional studies. In this work, he was so successful 
that he concluded to remain in it; devoting his especial energies to 
the study of the Greek and Latin languages, he was in June 1875, 
appointed to the chair of Latin by the trustees of Phillips (Ando¬ 
ver) Academy. 

Over-study caused the contraction of a pulmonary disease, and 
having failed to restore his health by a residence in the Bermudas, 
he came to Colorado Springs in the Centennial year. 

The climate of that charming place restored the Professer’s 






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health in a remarkably short time, and he was soon sufficiently 
restored in health to accept the position of teacher of Latin and 
Greek in the Denver High School, in which position he fitted 
many of Denver’s best young men for College where they won 
honors and have, since then, been successful iu life. 

School-room life, however, brought hack pulmonary troubles, 
and in 1886, Prof. Coy left the High School to live on the farm, 
he owns in Jefferson County, three miles west of Fort Logan. 

The fresh air and active exercises of this farm life soon brought 
back health, and last summer, without solicitation on his part, 
Prof. Coy was nominated by the Democratic State Convention to 
the office of Supt. of Public Instruction, really the most important 
in our system of government, when we contemplate that the fu¬ 
ture of our country depends upon the real culture and refinement 
of the rising generation. 

The vote which the Professor received, over 3600 majority, in 
a State, opposed to his politics, shows that the people at large 
had learned to appreciate his scholarly attainments, sterling char¬ 
acter and patriotic enthusiasm as an educator. 

The writer has himself been a Supt. of Publ. Instruction and 
knows how to appreciate the true laborer in the most important 
moral vineyard. 

The work of the office is laborious and requires closest per¬ 
sonal attention; Normal Institutes and teachers’ associations as 
well as meetings in Counties and districts are to he fostered, the 
state school fund must be looked after, as also the state school 
lands. Then there are decisions to be made in disputes and a 
great many other duties to attend which space forbids to mention. 

Mr. Coy brings to the discharge of these important duties a 
conscientious sense of his obligations, a high degree of scholar¬ 
ship, eminent natural talents and wide experience in the educa¬ 
tional field. 

No State in our Union has a better officer in this place than our 
own Colorado. 



HON. JAS. P. MAXWELL, 


STATE ENGINEER. 

Mr. Maxwell was born June 20, 1839, in Walworth County,. 
Wis., and was educated at Lawrence University. Appleton, Wis., 
where he took the regular classical and civil engineering course, 
graduating in June, 1859. 

The year following he came to Colorado, and for two years was 




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engaged in mining, and from 1863 to ’70, in the lumber business 
in Boulder and Gilpin counties. In the latter year he began sur- 
veying, and received a commission as U. S. Deputy Mineral Sur¬ 
veyor, a busiuess which he followed for two years. In 1872 he 

was a member of the territorial legislature, and was re-elected in 
1874. 

Mr. Maxwell was a member of the first state senate in 1877, a 
session which lasted one hundred and fifty days, and had a giant 
task to perform, as all the laws had to be enacted to meet the re¬ 
quirements of the newly adopted state constitution. Mr. Max¬ 
well became so prominent in this body that he was chosen presi¬ 
dent. pro tern, of the senate in 1878. 

From 1880 to 1882 he was county treasurer of Boulder county, 
and from that time until 1889 he has been engaged in civil en¬ 
gineering. 

Mr. Maxwell has always been a very prominent citizen of the 
state, conspicuous in the councils of his party, prominent in all 
state conventions, and recognized as one of the hardy, brawney 
and brainy pioneers of our great state. 

Gov. Cooper, in 1889, appointed Mr. Maxwell state engineer, 
an office which is of more importance in Colorado than in any 
state, on account of our irrigation system and our great mining 
industry. So well did Mr. Maxwell perform the duties of his of¬ 
fice that he was re-appointed by Governor Routt, and will be our 
state engineer for at least two years more. 

Mr. Maxwell is not only a first-class engineer, but he is also a 
gentleman of broad culture, originality of ideas and great concep¬ 
tion of the possibilites opened up by the vast natural resources of 
our state. 

His office is the one which is of paramount importance in the 
development of these great resources, as a man like Mr. Maxwell 
can institute improvements which largely assist the work of the 
agriculturist and help the miner in his laborious task. 

Mr. John S. Titcomb is the deputy state engineer. 


JUDGE S. H. ELBEET. 

Judge Elbert lias occupied almost every public office in Colo¬ 
rado. 

April 19tli 1862, lie was appointed Secretary of the Territory 
of Colorado which position he occupied until May 24th 1868. 

In 1873, he succeeded General Edward Me Cook as Governor, 
having been appointed by President Grant. Judge Elbert filled 
this office with signal ability and became so popular that when 
Colorada was admitted as a state, he was elected to a seat on the 
bench of the Supreme Court. From 1880 to 1882, he was Chief 
Justice of the State and has handed down many able decisions. 

In 1885 he was again elected to a seat on the supreme court 

bench but resigned in 1888, and lias since then attended to his 
large private affairs and practice. 

A large county in the State was by the legislature named Elbert 

county in his honor. 

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The judge is a public spirited man, one of those pioreers who 
have laid, as it were, the very foundation stones of our great State. 

Evans’ Memorial Chapel, a fine church building in Denver was 
erected in memory of Judge Elbert’s late wife, the daughter of 
Gov Evans. 

The Judge was married to Miss Josephine Evans, in 1865, but 
Mrs. Elbert lived only a short time, and the Judge has never 
again married. 

He is a man of independent fortune and a ripe scholar. He 
lios, among other publications, written a treatise on the reclama¬ 
tion of the arid lands in the State, a subject of very great import¬ 
ance, but very little understood. 

Gov. Elbert has, quite frequently, been most favorably mention¬ 
ed for the U. S. Senate. 





IION. O. W. MILLER, 


County Judge of Arapahoe County. 

Judge Miller, although still in his best years, is one of the 
very iirst Pioneers of our state and of the West. 

Early in life, he came to Kansas and almost immediately be¬ 
came well known as a good lawyer, and popular amongst the set¬ 
tlers. In 1861, he was a member of the last territorial legislature 
of Kansas. 







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Id 64 he came to Denver, locating here, as his foresight clear¬ 
ly predicted the great future of the city. 

Being drawn into public life, he always labored for the welfare 
of the community, and did much to give our city the reputation 
for good order which has ever characterized it. In 1868 he was 
a member of the lower house of the Colorado legislature. The 
capital was at Golden and Mr. Miller introduced a bill to trans¬ 
fer it to Denver. Prompt action on the measure was of impor¬ 
tance and he succeeded in passing it, before even rules were adop¬ 
ted, and thus secured Denver the capital. 

In the legislature of 1869, Mr. Miller was Speaker of the 
House, and by his knowledge of parliamentary law and impar¬ 
tial rulings, made many friends in all political parties. 

The Judge has always been a true and consistent Democrat, 
but has never been a partisan in the objectionable sense of the 
word, and the fact that he has been so often elected to office in 
strongly .Republican communities, shows that he is a patriot 
rather than a follower of a political party. 

In 1870, the Judge was the Democratic nominee for delegate 
in Congress, but Mr. Chaffee, his political opponent, being the 
strongest man in the dominating party, carried off the honors. 

Mr. Miller has also been the nominee of his party for a seat on 
the bench of the Supreme Court. 

When the State capital was to be permanently located, it was 
very important that Denver should have a clear majority over all 
competitors — which were Pueblo, Colorado Springs and Canon 
City, lest on the second vote they should combine as the field 
against Denver. Judge Miller spent a great deal of his time and 
of his means to visit the different parts of the stare, and it is 
largely due to his efforts, his logical and sound reasoning and to 
the influence which he exercises over his hearers, that Denver 
was triumphantly chosen and the capital question thus settled for 
ever, which gave renewed and firm public confidence in the city’s 
future, so that since then there has been a steady onward march 
of progress. 

In 1886, Mr. Miller was elected County Judge of Arapahoe 



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County, a most important position, since not only all the probate 
business of the wealthiest Western county is here transacted, but 
also more cases and many of importance — tried than before any 
other three Judges. 

On the bench, he gave such universal satisfaction that in 1889, 
he was re-elected by nearly 5000 majority, and that in a county, 
where the political majority against his party can be safely set 
down as 3000. 

As a lawyer, the Judge stands pre-eminent. His tine judicial 
mind grasps a legal question with a clearness which not only 
masters it in every detail but can also elucidate it to others. 

For many years there was not an important suit in which his 
services were not sought, but being conscientious to a nicety he 
would not take a client’s large fee for services, which, although 
legal, are yet morally wrong. Justice always was his motto, and 
while a wrong-doer should have all his rights protected by good 
counsel, yet money could not hire the judge to clear criminals by 
forced and artful means, as so many attorneys do. As before 
stated he has done much to build up that spirit of law and de¬ 
cency which has made public sentiment in Denver as moral and 
upright as can be found in any city. 

On the bench he is painstaking, impartial and able in his deci¬ 
sions, as he is always guided by what he considers his obligations 
to mankind. The judge has still two years to serve of his present 
term. Being in his best years of usefulness there is still a great 
future before him. 



HOIST. JOHN HIPP, 

President of the National Co-operative Building and Investment Association. 

Mr. Hipp was born in 1856, in Butler county, Ohio, where he spent his early 
years until in 1S6S his parents removed to Linn county, Kansas, where they re¬ 
sided for five years and then came to the vicinity of Denver. 

Until 1875 the boy worked on the farm, when, with firm determination he 
came to the city and worked himself through the high school by his own unaided 
efforts, and graduated with high honors in 1880. 

Then he went to the Denver University and worked his way through to a most 
honorable graduation in 1884. 

For two years he was stenographer for the supreme court, and in 1887 was 
admitted to the bar, gaining recognition and a lucrative practice from the start 

He was one of the incorporators and attorney for the association of which he 
is now president. 

Mr. Hipp is a self-made man, one of firm determination, great will power, 
universally recognized integrity, a lucid legal mind and good business capacity. 

He will be a power in the near future, in the formation of our public life, as lie 
is already one of the leaders of public opinion ; and all the better classes in our 
state and county recognize in him a leader of great force of character and of 
high commanding ability. 



T. H. HANLEY. 

Born at Alton, Ill. in 1850, the boy went to the public schools and at an early 
day travelled to the Black Hills. 

Not finding all he wanted, Mr. Hanley came to Leadville during the early 
days of that magnificent camp and participated in much important work. 

But in 1882, he removed to Denver where he has since then permanently re¬ 
sided, engaged in the mining business, in which he lias made a success for him¬ 
self as well as for his large number of clients. 

Mr. Hanley is a man of striking appearance, known for his generosity, of ge¬ 
nial disposition, and popular wherever he goes, having a host of friends in the 
city and state. 

Handsome and chivalrous in appearance, straight forward in all his dealings, a 
true friend and a whole-souled gentleman, he has made for himself a reputation 
which could command the support of the people for any position, but he never 
has desired political preferment, chosing rather to walk in tne business stations 
of life. 






HON F. A. WILLIAMS, 

City Attorney Denver, Colo. 

Mr. Williams has been a resident of Denver about nine years 
and has always taken a most active interest in the growth of the 
city and the promotion of public improvements. He is a member 
of the Chamber of Commerce and has been a close student of all 
the affairs of public life as well as of the lore of his profession in 
which he has already scored many a triumph and achieved envi¬ 
able success; when a litigant is his client once, he will be his cli¬ 
ent always, and more cannot be said for any lawyer. 

This spring Mr. Williams received the Republican nomination 
for City Attorney and on April 7th., was elected by a practically 
unanimous vote receiving the highest majority of any candidate 
on either ticket. 

Mr. Williams is filling the office with great credit and honor 
to himself and to the satisfaction of the public. Being a young 
man of great ability and strictest integrity, the highest stations of 
public life are open before him. 












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COMMENCED BUSINESS SEPTEMBER, 12, 1890. 

Paid in Capital $250,000 Surplus and Undivided Profts $22,000 


C, H. DOW, Pres., 


OFFICERS: 

FRANK H. DUNLEVY, Cashier. 


C. D. COBB, V.tPRES., 


DIRECTORS: 


JACOB SCHERRER. 
C. L. BURPEE. 
FRANK LATCHAM, 


C. D. COBB. 
ALFREDWOLFF. 
H. W, HOBSON. 


E. F, BISHOP. W. F. CALLAWAY, 
A. B. SULLIVAN. E. W. MERRITT. 
C. M. KITTREDGE. G. W. SHELDON. 


F. H. DUNLFVY. 


SAM’L. A. FISK. 


C. H. DOW. 





















































































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attainable there. 

Political empires and societies have, in all ages, conformed themselves to 
great geographical facts 

The American Republic is predestined to expand and fit itself to this mag¬ 
nificent, fallow continent; it will attain a population, equalling the rest of 
the world combined forming a single people, identical in manners, language 
and love of liberty, personified by universal and liberal education of all 
classes. 

In this respect, all other countries present a spectacle, exactly opposite 
that of ours; and as the American realizes that progress is God-like, he clearly 
recognizes and accepts the glorious mission of his people. 

Our American people, up to the close of 1889, had expended nine hundred 
millions of money in the construction of railroads; no other nation has such a 
record as this. When Governor Gilpin, as a young man, first spoke of the 
Pacific railroad system as necessary to the social and political unity of our 
country, and as being easily accomplished, he found many who ridiculed the 
idea; but these railroads have not only been built, they are constantly added 
to and multiplied. 

And thus the people of this continent are ever extending their mission; they 
are impelled by a universal instinct, inspiring dicipline in action and rectitude 
of purpose, while extending their line of trade to all the corners of the earth, 
carrying with them their love of liberty, their knowledge of true Democracy, 
rightly understood, and as our people have reduced it to practice. 

The principle factor in this great mission of our people will be the Cosmo¬ 
politan railway as advocated by the Governor who has just brought from the 
press a very handsome volume of three hundred and sixty pages, fully ex¬ 
plaining the purposes, the objects, ease and cost of construction, and the ben¬ 
efits to accrue from this great project which could originate only in a great 
mind. 

The Cosmopolitan Railway will connect all the systems of the world, going 
from New York, direct to Paris and every other city and village of the civ¬ 
ilized world, it will add an immense mileage to the systems of every country 
under the sun; will circumscribe every continent: make the whole world one 
community and reduce the separate nations to families of our great nation. 

What patriotic American would not willingly and enthusiastically lend all 
his assistance to such a grand enterprise which will place his people superior 
to the civilization of all ages and countries and make us the leader in the 
great onward march of progress? 

At present, London still dictates the prices of every commodity in the 
world, even our gold and silver miners must take their quotations from there; 
and thus do the fellows who produce nothing, arrogate to themselves the right 
to fix prices, while our people who carry on an indefinite production and mul¬ 
tiplication of wealth by the individual, voluntary and intelligent efforts of our 
citizens, have not a word to say as to what they shall receive. 

Is that fair? 


THE COSMOPOLITAN RAILWAY. 


Gov. Wm. Gilpin has spent fifty-four years of his useful life in solving the 
question of the greatest importance to all mankind in general and to the 
American nation in particular. 

He was the first man who had the moral courage to change the map of the 
world from the old fogy system of the meridian of Greenwich to a new as 
well as correct plan which takes England out of the central position which 
Johnny Bull has arrogated to himself, wipes out—as it were—the Atlantic 
Ocean as the highway of traffic and places the North American continent into.' 
the center of commerce, activity and intelligence, while England is relegated! 
to an obscure corner of the globe. 

Gov. Gilpin is the most remarkable student of physical geography whom 
the world has yet produced; his great mind, like that of Humboldt, absorbing 
and retaining all knowledge, while at one glance, he looks over all lands and 
all ages. 

The most important fact in all the science of geography had escaped the 
students of all times, until the Governor called-attention to it, namely that 
the continents of Europe and Asia are convex in their configuration, moun¬ 
tain chains insolating peoples and products, engendering diversities of inter¬ 
ests and general distraction, resulting in wars and continual slaughter and 
uproar, while the continent of North America is concave in its structure,, 
tending to homogeneity and harmonious action. 

The mountain and river systems of the Old World run with the latitudinal 
lines, thus cutting the continent into climatic zones, restricting each to its 
products and peculiarity, preventing the highest developments; while in the 
New World, the mountain and river systems run longitudinally across is¬ 
othermal lines, breaking the barriers of climate and throwing together the 
people and the products of every section. 

To make it still plainer, the North American continent presents a bowl, 
opened towards heaven in one expanded basin to receive and fuse harmoni¬ 
ously whatever is found within its rim; while all other continents present an 
upturned bowl, scattering everything from the central apex into radial 
distraction. 

The natural result of these physical conditions is shown in the fact that our 
people travel constantly and exchange the products of all sections with an ease 
and a rapidity which are not only unknown in other countries, but are not. 


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Where is the American who will not heartily shake hands with the Govern¬ 
or and call his name blessed? 

His great project is not only patriotic but philanthropic, as it will so con¬ 
nect the United States with all parts of the globe, by a simple and possible 
although stupendous, railroad system that nations can be fed with the prod¬ 
ucts of our fallow continent, filling four hundred millions of hungry stomachs 
as well as teach them our civilization, drive tryanny forever from the earth, 
forbid all wars and establish universal peace. 

Where is the Christian or the lover of mankind anywhere who would not 
gladly help to bring about so desirable a result? 

Now, is the building of the road practicable? 

In the Great North American Andes is a system of plateaus and parks 
which is a natural course for the continental railway which will follow the 
line of the isothermal axis encountering but one apparent obstacle, that of 
crossing the straits of Behring. 

Of this strait a map is given on page 59 to show the extreme easiness 
with which is can be crossed. 

The Pacific Gulf Stream always keeps the passage open. The warm water 
secures an equable temperature, no icebergs are ever known, as numerous 
whalers attest. 

The straits are only 48 miles wide and nowhere over seven fathoms deep. 
Near the middle of the strait is the Diomede Island, large enough to build a 
city like Paris on. How easy then, to make two tubular bridges of twenty- 
seven and twenty-one miles in length, or even to tunnel under the shallow 
sea bottom? 

There are no climatic hindrances and the time is at hand, when there will 
be no mechanical obstacles which push and American enterprise cannot over¬ 
come. From Behring’s Strait to the mouth of the river Amoor is not a long 
distance, and the Russian government—our steadfast and sincere ally—is 
even now constructing a railroad to that point. 

That road will follow the Asiatic plateau, along the isothermal-axis of 
the Temperate Zone and must soon become a part of the same highway of 
the world’s traffic which was begun by our own Pacific Roads. 

Now, as to the financial aspect of the question. 

The entire capital invested in the railroads of the world is estimated at 
twenty-five thousand millions. Of this, the United States is credited with 
more than one-third. 

The one-tenth of all the wealth of all nations is invested in railroads. And 
to this one-tenth, every branch of commerce and manufactories of to-day 
owes the fullness of its development. 

The cost of construction of the Cosmopolitan Railway is estimated as be¬ 
tween two and three hundred millions. 

Of what significance is this sum to the vast outlay made, when we consider 
that it will be the connecting link to all other railroad systems and make them 

more useful. For every dollar, thus expended, at least ten dollars would be 


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added to the wealth of the world. 

The question of money should not stand in the way, as it would be a reflec¬ 
tion on the enterprise of our age, compared to that of the Pharao’s. Let the 
world stop its political warnglings, its wars and preparations for human 
butcheries, and devote the energy to this work, and it is done in a short time. 

But, if no other nation takes part in this great work, our own people and 
that of Russia can accomplish it. All we have to do is to issue four-forty 
bonds, backed and guaranteed by the governments, and material and labor 
can easily be obtained. These bonds can then be redeemed by the sale of 
the public domain which would thus be opened up, in small parcels, to our 
people who would establish happy homes. 

Alaska which is a territory rich in natural resources, would at once begin to 
pour out its wealth which has been so long locked up, and from this source 
alone would our people, in a short time, be re-imbursed for the outlay. 

As stated before, only the genius of a master mind, such as Governor Gil. 
pin’s could originate and work out in every detail, such a stupendous, and yet 
easily accomplished, undertaking. 


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W. s. RAYMOND. 

Real Estate, Mining and General Merchandise Business. 

This gentleman was born in the year 1852, at Lockport, N. Y. and graduated at 
a t the Wesleyan University of Middletown, Conn., in 1875, well equipped for the 
life before him. In 1876, he came to Colorado, and foreseeing the great future 
of Denver, located here, engaging in business as above stated which he has ever 
since followed. 

No man in the city is better acquainted with real estate values, nor is there one 
who w r atches events which influence prices in the growing metropolis more close¬ 
ly. Mr. Raymond has the best facilities and attends to business in the most 
conscientious and judicious manner. Our readers who would like to invest in 
Denver realty or mining property, would do well to address him, at 1644 Curtis St 



RESIDENCE OF W. S. RAYMOND, 
COR. 16 th AYE. & RACE ST. 

















Of the firm of A. K. Clark & Co., Denver, Colo. 

One of the great commercial houses which have materially contributed to the 
wonderful business growth of Denver, fully identified with the progress of the 
city is this firm, now in successful business existence for over twenty years, and 
located in one of the most spacious buildings, 1528 to 1534 Larimer street, where 
they keep a mammoth stock of Wines, Liquors, Cigars, etc., at wholesale. 

Ihese gentlemen have gained the very highest reputation for their strictly re¬ 
liable brands of the best Kentucky Bourbon and Pennsylvania Rye Whiskies, a 
large stock of which they always keep in store for years, until the liquors attain 
that age which alone can render them first-class. 

They are also direct importers of the very best wines, Port, Bordeaux, Sherry 
Rhine, Mosel, Bergundy, Clarets and Sauterne, all can be had in every brand and 
at the most reasonable prices. The Cigar department is a specialty. 

Their own Havana importations consist of such well and favorably known 
brands as Mikado, El Piaren, El Galantes, El Champana. Bella Cubana, La Dili¬ 
gence, De la Rima, Demicraties, Perfectos and many others; then there are the 
Key West brands, such as El Principe de Gales, Conchitas, Conchas, Lon 
Grande, Precioso, Re Vic. Extra, Boq Extra, etc., etc., besides all other varieties 
and manufactures of cigars found in any of the best factories or wholesale houses. 

They have a Patent Cigar Box, constructed on really scientific principles, al¬ 
ways keeping the cigars freshened to suit the taste. This principle is especially 
applicable to a dry climate like ours, and essential to Havana goods. 

Mr. Clark is a first-class business man who serves his customers with the strict¬ 
est integrity, and by his great experience is enabled to serve them in the best pos¬ 
sible style. 






COLORADO SUMMER RESORTS. 


There is not a state in the Union nor a country in the world which can com¬ 
pare with Colorado as to scenery, climate and mineral springs for both bathing 
and drinking purposes 

The best known, is the world renowned Manitou at the foot of Pike’s Peak 
Here are the most famous Soda and Iron springs, the glorious Grand Caverns 
with the only natural organ, composed of stalactites which furnish most har¬ 
monious music, and a thousand other attractions, also the Cave of the Winds 
the Garden of the Gods, the Cog Wheel R. R. to the top of Pike’s Peak, a hun¬ 
dred drives which afford views over the most sublime handiwork of the Supreme 
Architect and last, but not least, the best appointed hotels, where two hundred 
thousand tourists find rest and refreshment, every season. 

There is no other spot on earth which combines all the attractions of surpass¬ 
ing beauty as Manitou does. 

Above Manitou is lovely Cascade Canon where the rushing waters tell you 
secrets of former times, where the elevation affords the finest climate in the 
world and where there are mineral springs, drives without number and the cele¬ 
brated Pike’s Peak wagon road, over which Huntley & Carlisle,s coaches take 
you to the pinnacle. This road, as was stated by people who had leisurely trav¬ 
elled all around the globe, affords the most sublime views they had ever beheld. 
Cascade is in the Ute pass, probably the most historic as regards Indian lore. 

Above Cascade we find the Ute Pass Hotel a fin e hostelry, opened last year, 
and Green Mountain Falls, a perfect gem of beauty with a crystal lake and all 
attractions and accomodations. Still further up are Woodland Park and Floris¬ 
sant. 

One hundred miles from Colorado Springs is Buena Vista, the city of the 
beautiful view which is universally acknowledged to have the most perfect cli¬ 
mate on the continent, is surrounded by a fine mining and agricultural country, 
has the finest mineral springs which are infallible for rheumatism and many 
other diseases, hotels with all modern conveniences being built at the Cotton¬ 
wood Hot Springs, Mt. Princeton Springs and the Hortense Springs. One of 


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the great attractions is Thompson’s Lake, swarming with millions of trout, three 
of which, each weighing six pounds, were presented to President Harrison, when 
he passed through here on May 11,. Twelve miles from the city are the roman¬ 
tically located Cottonwood Lakes, also full of the speckled beauties, and where 
hundreds of people come annually to pick the mountain straw and raspberries 
which for flavor far excel any and all other fruit of the kind. Besides these 
there are a number of drives amidst the most enchanting mountain scenery, the 
‘‘Trinity of College Peaks, Harvard, Yale and Princeton, rock formations and 
castellationsof the most curious shapes, such as can be beheld in no other place. 

Buena Vista also is the starting point for that natural curiosity and splendid 
summer camping place, Twin Lakes, two sheets of water, unique in their shape. 

At Leadville we find the National Fish Hatchery and the Evergreen Lakes, 
besides so many other attractions that the most gifted pen could not well de¬ 
scribe them. 

Beyond, across the continental range, the tourist finds Siloam Springs and 
Glenwood Springs, places which require volumes to do them justice. At the 
latter place, the big swimming pool is a great attraction, as is also the new and 
elegant Bath house and the Sweat Cave, where nature has provided Turkish 
baths of the most approved style. 

All these places can be reached by the Colorado Midland, the great Pike’s 
Peak Route, the pioneer broad guage railroad of our state. All, except those of 
the Ute Pass can also be reached by the D. & R. G., the “Scenic line of the 
World. 

There are also many resorts on the U. P. lines in tne state, notably Idaho 
Springs which is the only rival for climate which Buena Vista has, and which is 
a most enchanting resort. 

Then there are Georgetown and Silver Plume, the trip over the loop which 
thousands of tourists admire annually. 

Those who want to make an extended tour, take in the trip around the 
circle, or may even go to Steamboat Springs, the largest known anywhere, not 
excepting the gigantic geisers. 

We cannot, in this article, mention one half of all the resorts, suffice it to say 
that the tourist, coming to Denver, can spend his whole summer season in ex¬ 
cursions to the different resorts, and can do so at most reasonable cost, as all our 
railroads make very low r excursion rates. 

We will only mention one more, and do it here for the purpose of impressing it 
more particularly upon the mind of the reader, and that is Colorado Springs. 
From this point, innumerable excursions can be had. An electric road has been 
built to Cheyenne Canon, where the grave of “H. .H” is located, that true poetic 
heart which loved these scenes of grandeur so well as to wish here an eternal 
resting place. Another line runs through Colorado City to Manitou. Both of 
these present to the traveller the finest scenery to be seen from any railroad in 
the world. Indeed Colorado Springs has become a sanitarium of all the year 
around which cannot be equalled in Switzerland, nor in any other country. 


158 


STEPHEN VTNOT. 

One of Denver’s prominent Pioneers and Heal Estate Owners. 

This gentleman is well and favorably known, not only amongst 
the old pioneers of the city and state, but also by all who were 
later comers. 

It is through the instrumentality of such men as Mr. Yinot, 
that Denver has become the beautiful metropolis which now does 
greet the eye of the stranger and invites him to make here a 
permanent home. 

The beautiful and elegant Vinot Block, on the corner of 
Tenth and Fourteenth Avenues, which he has erected, is a 
model of architecture and an ornament to that portion of the city. 

No wonder that Mr. VTnot is popular and always requested 
to take a prominent place on every public occasion, as he did 
at the reception of President Hairison in Denver. But as he 
is a man of modest and retiring disposition, he never seeks 
publicity, his fellow-citizens seek him. Public spirited and 
generous, he combines these traits with fine business capacity 
and enterprise. Being one of the oldest realty holders in the 
city, his judgment in real estate matters is generally consider¬ 
ed to be almost infallible, and many of his friends have been 
benefitted by his sound reasoning, great foresight and friendly 
advice. Mr. Yinot’s friends are legion, not only in the city and 
amongst influential business men, but throughout the state, and 
amono-st “all classes and conditions of men.” 

Mr. Yinot was born in France, in 1836, and is decended from 
an old, noble family. Although beginning as a poor man, he has 
by economy and industry accumulated a large share of the world’s 

Mr. Yinot is especially known as a good worker in the anti- 
Chinese cause, as he has had peculiar facilities to witness the in¬ 
juries these heathen do to white labor and the country at large. 

Those desiring information about Denvei real estate should ad¬ 
dress Mr. Stephen Yinot, at the Yinot Block, Denver, Colo. 



159 


EDWIN J. EATON. 

\ ' 

SECRETARY OF STATE, COLORADO. 

This gentleman was born on September 3rd, 1847, at Tonica, 
LaSalle county, Ill., and came to Colorado in May, 1872, settling 
in El Paso county, the finest in the state for scenery as well as the 
best known for her cultured people. 

In such a community known for refinement and moral integrity 
of the highest degree, only a man of high character and great 
competency can become a leader of public opinion. 

But Mr. Eaton was elected assessor in 1875, and so well did he 
serve his people that lie was re-elected. 

In 1889, he was elected County Clerk, of El Paso county, and 
his name became known all over the state in so favorable a man¬ 
ner that in 1890, only one name, that of Mr. Eaton, became pro¬ 
minent for the nomination to his present position, 0 ue of great 
responsilibity. 

He was elected by seven thousand five hundred majority, the 
largest received by any candidate on either ticket. 

There is not a better qualified man in any public position than 
Mr. Eaton, nor one who is more highly respected for his sterling 
qualities, urbane manners, high character and fine business abili¬ 
ties. 

Ilis office is a marvel of systematic order; the books have all 
been overhauled, and now, a few minutes’search will find any de¬ 
sired record or document. 

The office of Secretary of State is of more importance in Colora¬ 
do than in most other states; more companies are here annually 
incorporated than in any other three states. This department 
alone is of great importance. But Mr. Eaton has admirably suc¬ 
ceeded in making his a model office, and any investor or party, in¬ 
terested, who desires information from his department, will find 
his a most exemplary set of records. 



INDEX. 


Page 

Adams, Gov. Alva. 66 

“ Jas. F., City Treas.. 124 

Ady, Geo. E.,G. P. Agent. 115 

Brownlow Mine, (Ill.). 26 

Behring Straits, (Map). 59 

Boston & Colorado Smelter. 63—89 

Barton, Sheriff, E. R. 103 

Carlisle, State Treas., J. N. 131 

Chamber of Commerce, Denver. 52 

Chaffee, J. B., U. S. Senator. 72 

Chamberlin, H. B. 98 

Colorado, History of. 32 

National Bank. 71 

Mining Exchange. 116 

Commercial National Rank. 149 

Columbine. 97 

Cooper, Gov. J. A. 68 

Cosmopolitan Railway. 59-150 

County Officers. 42 

Cummins, L. G. 159 

Denver, Real Estate. 20 

History of. 48 

Post Office. 91 

Eaton, Gov. Ben. 65 

Eddy. H. H. 110 

Elbert, Judge S. H. 142 

Evans, Gov. John. 94 

Pisk, Col. A.C. 112 

German National Bank. Ill 

Gilpin, Gov, Wm. 9-150 

Globe Smelter. 86 

Grant, Gov. J. B.. — 61 

Hill, Sen. N.P. 76 

Henderson, Auditor, John M. 134 

Hooper, S. K., Gen. Pass. Agt., D.R.G. 92 
Kimball, Red Sand Stone Co. 82-120 


Page 

Lake Corinne. 128 

Lead Duty. 84 

May Mazeppa. 117 

Maupin, J. H., Att’y Gen. 136 

Maxwell, J. P,. State Engineer. 140 

Manitou.28-70-90-122 

Mears, Otto, “The Pathfinder”. 107 

Mining in Colorado. 7—24 

Mint Report. 75 

Miller, Judge G. W. 143 

Omaha & Grant Smelter. 88 

Pitkin, Gov. F. W. 60 

Press.126-155 

Routt, Gov. J. L. 56 

Riethman, J: J. 123 

Raymond. W. S. 154 

State Officers. 30 

School Superintendents. 44 

Sheedy, Dennis. 83 

Smith, J. H., County Clerk. 95 

Summer Resorts. 156 

Tabor, Senator H. A. W. 16—78 

Tax Schedule. 74 

Taylor. Chas. E.116-117-118-129 

Teller, Senator H. M. 73 

Union National Bank. 102 

Van Der Weyden, Wm. 130 

Vinot. S. 158 

Williams, F, A., City Attorney. 148 

Welch. Wm., Sheriff. 106 

Woeber Carriage Company. 133 

Woodbury, R. W. 99 

Wolfe Hall. 31 

Wolcott, Senator E. O. 80 

Wygant, Thos. H. Jr. 146 




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